Lakshmi C S

Dr C S Lakshmi has been an independent researcher in Women's Studies for over forty years. She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai in Tamil, and her short story collections have been published in Tamil and translated into English. She is currently the Director of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women).

When Alamelu Shrugged

‘Mother, to suckle and suckle insatiably The milk sentient from thy life breast’ —Subramania Bharati in Krishna – My Mother Alamelu, my mother, is a small made woman. But from her childhood, heavy burdens were placed on her shoulders.