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"Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks)" - Gloria Anzaldua
"Sharanya Manivannan is the Sri Lankan womanist poet I've been waiting for - a writer with guts and passion and precision, brave enough to tell all the Sri Lankan women's stories that have been needing to be told for too long. Incredibly fierce!" - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Consensual Genocide)
"I am moved by Sharanya's poems, excited by the worlds she describes -- modernity flowering in tradition's gardens, the yoking of different and sometimes irreconcilable experiences. Her poetry springs from loss, separation, sometimes union. I like the catholicity of her tastes, her broad embrace of literature and experience from cultures far from each other on the planet, yet side by side in her poems." - Indran Amirthanayagam (The Elephants of Reckoning, winner of the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize)
"I love Sharanya's poems: they are breathtakingly beautiful. They're very musical and her imagery is not just rich but has the sort of precise tactility that's hard to come by, not at all sentimental." - Laksmi Pamuntjak (Ellipsis)
"Sharanya Manivannan can make you weep. She moves in mysterious ways. She fills in the blanks." - Francesca Beard (Chinese Whispers tour)
"Sharanya is one of those writers who reaffirm your belief in the creative future of poetry. Her poems excite at the same time with the burst of youth and the slow seep of old wisdom. Her images are physical and thought-provoking. They often startle with their unexpected aptness. They are erotic, sad, disturbing. She is equally at home with poetry and prose. I think Sharanya, given the space to grow, will zoom." - Shreekumar Varma (The Lament of Mohini)
"Onstage, she exacts a commanding presence, her reading voice and image sensual, lyrical, literate and emotionally charged... There's a winning combination of rawness and finesse in her work that's quite astounding... A great poet in the making." - Klue Magazine, June 2007
"Truly an old soul… Her words [pulsate] with sensuality, pain and mercurial energy." – TELL Magazine, August 2007
"[A] rising star." – The Jakarta Post, November 2007
Contact Me: sharanya(dot)manivannan(at)gmail.com
Interview on HowToTellAGreatStory.Com, November 2006
Article in Klue Magazine, June 2007
Interview in Zero Degrees Magazine, June 2007
Interview in New Man Magazine, June 2007
Article in TELL Magazine, August 2007
In Conversation: Interviewed by Syar S. Alia
In Conversation: Interviewed by Kenny Mah
In Conversation: Interviewed by Nicholas Wong
Invoking Frida: Frida Kahlo Birth Centenary Tribute
Ochre As The Earth: Solo Show Event Blog
Cempulappeyanirar - Kuruntokai: "Red Earth and Pouring Rain"
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - "eating a $5 plate of string hoppers, I think of my father"
Basava - Vacana 820: "Things Standing Shall Fall, But The Moving Ever Shall Stay"
Sandra Cisneros - "You Bring Out The Mexican In Me"
Rayna Green - "When I Cut My Hair"
Invoking Frida: A Tribute To Frida Kahlo on her 99th Birthday
The Great Housewives of Art: Women Painters
Review: Dharmasena Pathiraja's In Search of a Road
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Two reports on demonstrations right here in Chennai, at the Malaysian Consulate, about the temple demolitions in Malaysia are here and here. Hindu activists involved -- am worried about this development, as explained in the post below this one. Will write more soon, I hope.
Labels: malaysia, racism, temple demolitions
posted by sharanya @ 1:11 PM
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