My latest is a collection of short stories with the title “Bandilanka’s Forgotten Lives.” A remote village in South India – home to my grandparents – brought back almost forgotten memories of people in the house who carried out all the unimaginably demeaning tasks that caste and class condemned them to do! My stories bring these lives into focus, listen to their voices, cherish their dreams! The loving washerman, the proud sweeper woman, the lonely widow, the child bride … these are some of the lives that lend purity to an otherwise corrupt Brahmin oligarchy!

About kamakshi

Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has published children’s books centered on young and older teens. Murti has also published murder mysteries featuring two indomitable female sleuths, avatars of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple: “Murders Most Matronly” and “Murders in the Ivory Tower.” Her scholarly writing addresses multi-cultural issues, and gender studies (“India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism” and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-shifting ‘Other’.”

View all posts by kamakshi →