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MY DOSSIER: SUDHA KF

Sudha K F is currently doing her Ph D in Cultural Studies from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She writes both in English and Malayalam. Her English poems have appeared in renowned international literary journals like The Brown Boat by Raedleaf Poetry India (April 2014), The Brown Critique ( July 2014) etc. Her Malayalam poems have appeared in the Puzha magazine. Her Malayalam short story has appeared in Madhyamam weekly, a reputed and widely circulated journal in Malayalam in May 2014. She has also penned non fiction pieces in widely followed critical blogs like Kafila, Roundtable India and online literary journals like Azhimukham.

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I do not have mystical images for you,

nor are they transcendental ones.

What I have is a dossier,

of tattered loose pages,

titled Day One, Day Two and so on.

 

These tattered pages look very ordinary;

They even look cumbersome,

to some.

They seem to offer nothing fresh:

the usual “painkilli”1 everydayness.

 

I will embrace the “painkill” though;

I will take those accusations against me

with glee;

But, also add that they do not know how

to read my dossier.

 

The key is to smell it;

I sniff and snuffle the edges

to read any book.

This will offer a different story;

Not one of words, not one of predictable endings,

but of a real real “painkilli”ness

 

Painkilli is a Malayalam word mostly in reference to the romance in the pop novels which appear in women’s magazines. It denotes a lower and candy floss idea of love/romance.

 


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