Volume 39, Number 1 & 2 · January 16, 1992
'Women Well Set Free'
By Anita Desai
Women Writing in India Vol. I: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century
edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 537 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India
edited by Kali for Women, Introduction by Meena Alexander
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 179 pp., $12.95 (paper)
In 1910, Bangalore Nagaratnamma, described as 'a patron of the arts, a learned woman, a musician, and a distinguished courtesan,' decided to reprint the Telugu classic, Radhika Santwanam (Appeasing Radhika) by the eighteenth-century poet Muddupalani 'not only [because it was] written by a woman, but by one who was born into our community,' and because she found it 'as adorable as the young Lord Krishna.' She added, in her afterword, 'However often I read this book, I feel like reading it all over again.'
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