Chandrachoodan and I really want to be pretentious. We’re found it helps alot in matters of productivity-evasion and general world domination. So we’re going to have breakfast/brunch at Amethyst tomorrow and do the Pinky and the Brain routine as per usual. The difference is, come join us! Drop by if you’re interested in the readings [...]
June 28, 2008
The Venus Flytrap: Between Bread and Betelnut
I was raised by my Sri Lankan Tamil maternal grandparents, and among my various cultural heirlooms comes that famously recognizable accent. That conversation-stopping, glint-in-the-eye, connotations-stirring, “Yaarlpanam-ah?” accent. The one my mother, in her less matriotic moments, tries to pass for Malayali. That political, poetic, deeply personal dialect that I call my mother tongue.
As fiercely in [...]
