I have often wondered about the very curdled natures of our opinions so much so that the perch of imagination simply becomes a bystanding abstraction and real thoughts of genuine merit slip between the fingers. That is a human tendency, to beat arou...
My essay/movie review on THE MOTHER OF 1084, a seminal novel written by Mahashweta Devi turned into an equally gripping feature film in 1998, has been published by BORDERLESS JOURNAL.
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I want readers to imbibe the socio-political, cultural aspects that are part of the work and ponder upon the fate of the mother-son bond besieged by external factors, portrayed here, and the churning within society that counters the kind of complacent bourgeois arrogance they both encounter at home. This in particular is exemplified by aura of the epoch of Communism it addresses and implications of following ideologies beyond the beck and call of everyday life.
