Dear potential readers! Sad to say, my valiant attempts to enclose a couple of videos describing this my latest Leela/Meena murder mystery failed rather spectacularly! So here are some words that touch upon the themes that drive my story!

Transgressive?

Who defines the boundaries of morality?

Transgressive?

Who defines the boundaries of morality?

Who sets rules of behavior?

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”

(bell hooks)

Indomitable sleuths

A story about bodies, voices, and stories brutally destroyed,

and yet never giving up the fight to claim their rightful place in society

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’.”

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