1 Jun 2010

Storytelling – The Female Way

The other day I found myself including a long sambhar recipe in a story that had nothing to do with sambhar or indeed food of any other kind. The inclusion just happened. I stared at what I had written, wondering how it got there. It had got there, of course, because I had typed it [...]

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8 Nov 2009

Oh Woman Writer

The media has decided. I’m not a writer. No such luck. No, I’m a ‘woman’ writer. The word ‘woman’ is a noun, according to all grammar books. When did it become an adjective? When did someone become a ‘woman’ pilot, a ‘woman’ executive, a ‘woman’ photographer?

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