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The book, A Woman Of No Consequence, written by Kalpana Karunakaran — Associate professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT-Madras, and girl of Communist person Mythily Sivaraman — was released present connected Saturday. It follows the beingness of her maternal grandma Pankajam (1911-2007).
Ms. Kalpana, who began speaking by invoking her mother, said she chanced upon her grandmother’s autobiographical notes during her probe aimed astatine penning a publication connected Ms. Sivaraman. She had described herself arsenic a pistillate of nary consequence. Though not formally schooled, her grandma was a voracious reader.
N. Ram, Director, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited, praised Ms. Kalpana for some her intimate and anthropological attack to a book.
Writer, translator, and feminist historiographer V. Geetha, said for Pankajam, speechmaking was a mode of being, of existing. Her penning vocation that began astatine 38 continued till she was 90.
Writer and researcher Nivedita Louis appreciated the mode Pankajam wrote autofiction.
