The English department conducted a book reading session in the campus on Friday.
Mridula Khosy, a Delhi-based writer read out a couple of chapters from her latest book If it is sweet. The book is a collection of short stories written in a three year period. Dr Cherian Alexander actively participated in the discussion with the writer. In his view, the book is very literary; the language is luminous, sense of style and her comfort of language is evident. It is Indian but it does not only cater to Indian reader. The stories are inviting and appealing.
Mridula read out an excerpt from the story titled “Jeans”. The story is about a pair of jeans and how it travels from hand to hand. The story shows how the jeans enters into different sections of people, some from the upper class and others the working class.
It was quite evident that she did not have a particular plot. She said, “Plot isn’t important in my life. It is a representative of my own life as a migrant.” In other stories she tries to re-examine Delhi in her own way after her return from Los Angeles. The tiny poetry invites the reader to run through it again and it is an experimental writing technique.
In the interactive session that followed, many questions were raised. When asked as to what inspired her to write she said, “After returning to Delhi from Los Angeles, I did not have an outlet and that’s when I started writing. I wrote to discover things about myself.”
- Smitha Jayaram I MS Com
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