Bøker av Salma

The natural attraction between a woman and a man is one of the basic aspectsof human life. It is the nectar of life. However, caste and religion has beenpoisoning this nectar. Religious antagonism does not tolerate inter-religious loveand ruins it. The unblemished romances of young minds are devastated by thereactionary religious attitude. Religious extremists view such love as a waragainst their religion. Thiruvalluvar says love cannot be suppressed. The humanmind inflicted by divisions refuses to give that honor to love that transcendscaste, religion and class boundaries. Salma's novel deals with the romances ofthe period when love and politics intersect.

Writer, poet salma's second novel. Salma's novel is filled with the stories of personal life of women, which the outer world has not much knowledge of. A melancholic world and how one overcomes it with time is portrayed realistically in the novel. The language and this world are new and might not be pleasant to conservative minds. But when the chains of conservative oppression are broken, there is a flood of narratives that are unleashed. The novel is one such story.

Acclaimed writer Salma's sophomore novel Women Dreaming (translated by Meena Kandasamy) centres on three women in a small village in southern India. Salma's work combines startling metaphoric resonance with a rare outspokenness about traditionalism and patriarchy in relation to Tamil women's experience