AN INTRODUCTION TO MY UPCOMING NOVEL (Phoenix rises)

[Nichiro]

With Great Anguish
I have removed
The stories.


SHE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK

First we worship her as Godess,
Pray as Mother,
Love as a wife
Adore as a daughter

But she does not speak.

when she was married off
To five of them,
And undressed in front of them,
She did not speak.

When she was banished when pregnent,
She did not speak.

When her head was severed,
She did not speak.

She was sold,
She was raped,
She was brutalised
She was exploited.
And she has not spoken.

When someone speaks
On her behalf,
We shut him off.
Because We are
Cultured People.
We do not like
our Living rooms
With dirt showing.

Let the dirt
Rot in someone's
Back yard.

[Badri]

Oh Gawd!!!

Nichiro!!! The stories are tormenting! Excellently written, but absolutely traumatic! Now, I will never be able to get the sadness out of the day!!! Although I am not sure if you are not violating Hub rules in terms of decency, still the pathos is too real!!! You have spun a masterly beginning...and although I don't think I want to read anymore, simply because it is too sad, I can't help wondering how you are going to blend the two! I have read merciless episodes before, but always there was a feeling of artificiality to them, so I was not much affected. But somehow, you are writing is pure anguish!



I really wish you'd stop that! There is as much laughter in this world as there is sorrow! All our lives are filled with both! Then why highlight only the one and not the other? Why focus only on sorrow, which all of us are trying to forget and laugh instead?

[Nichiro]

Why do we want to be literary Ostriches?
Reality is all around.
We cannot wish away reality.
How long will be brush the garbage under the carpet.?

[NM]

Nichiro,

Both are excellently written! Tho' I do share Badri's sentiment on the decency, I find Toto's story very interesting. Both stories vaguely remind me of 2 different novels I read and enjoyed back in the 80's. Is there more to come??

And, yup...hope the chapters to come will have some happiness in them as Badri thambi has said,
"There is as much laughter in this world as there is sorrow! All our lives are filled with both! Then why highlight only the one and not the other? Why focus only on sorrow, which all of us are trying to forget and laugh instead?"

Anyway, don't mistaken my comments..your stories were excellent!

[Badri]

Why do we want to be literary Ostriches?
Reality is all around.
We cannot wish away reality.
How long will be brush the garbage under the carpet.?

True, but why be only one-sided? Why always look only at one side of the reality, and brush the good things under the carpet?

Again, as NM akka has said, please do not interpret this as saying anything against your writing! In truth, the very fact that I...ok, we, to include NM, have felt so strongly is only becos of ur superb writing style.

[Nichiro]

I have covered the rotting boil
Which is there on our body.
So that no one can see it.
But what will I do
About the stink?

[NM]

Nichiro..

We (thambi & I) are sorry if we hurt your feelings in any way !
I truly appreciated your superb writings and to see these removed is like a slap on my face just for voicing out my views...

We asked
Not to cover the boils
Nor to hide the stinks
But merely
A balance
Of boils
Stinks
and the wonderful things..

[Badri]

Oh No!

Nichiro...that is not what we meant!!

NM akka: Don't blame yourself! It is all my fault! If I hadn't said it in the first place...

And Nichiro, as NM has rightly said, we did not say no to the boils, but only asked for more of the beauty that does exist, along with the stinky boils..

And Nichiro, I don't think you are being fair...

I paraphrase Nichiro:

when she was married off
To five of them,
And undressed in front of them......

When she was banished when pregnent.......

When someone speaks
On her behalf,
We shut him off........

Whole epics were written on the woman who married the five and the woman who was banished when pregnant!! And you say we shut him off?

No, it is because those two poets talked both of the good and the bad, both of the beauty and the disease that they were not shut off, but are still revered as Master Poets and their epics have been transformed from mere literary gems to holy scriptures.

But you should not remove the stories just going by the opinion of 2 hubbers. There are many others, and you should give them a chance to read and comment too.

[NM]

NM akka: Don't blame yourself! It is all my fault! If I hadn't said it in the first place...

Thambi..don't worry......if I hadn't shared the views, I wouldn't hv posted my opinion! It's no one's fault....we're merely voicing out our views, that's all. Some ppl can be sensitive, I guess!

[Nichiro]

Hello Thanbi Badri Avl,

[quote
Whole epics were written on the woman who married the five and the woman who was banished when pregnant!! And you say we shut him off? quote]

If that were the case, the name of the MAHABHARATAM would have been PANCHALI PURANAM. RAMAYAN should have been named as SITAYAN .
How many of us remember supreme sacrfice of Lakshman's wife Urmila?
She was all alone away from Lakshman for 14 years.

Poets Glorify Maryada Purushottam Ram. It was Sita who was the epitome of Maryada.

And Rishi Jamadagni and his obedient son (sic) Parashuram goes scot free even after suspecting his wife Sati Renuka of misdemenour and ordering of cutting her head off.!!

And we glorify Parashuram !!!



Hah

Puranas were written by males....No wonder.

And who coined the phrase,

Kallanaalum Kanavan.........? (Hope my Tamiz is correct)

Shoot him in .......!