Swati Vijaya, Author at In Plainspeak

चाची 420 की जातिवादी चार सौ बीसी[1]

·May 21, 2020
·Swati Vijaya

ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि जातिवाद की खिल्ली उड़ाने के लिए बनाए जा रहे सभी तरह के कार्टून चित्रों के पोस्टर बॉय आजकल अभिनेता कमल हसनहसन ही हैं। बीते दशकों के दौरान सिनेमा में चित्रित पात्रों के भोलेपन को समझने और अपने इस लेख के लिए बेहतर जानकारी पाने के उद्देश्य से हाल ही में…

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Exposed Book Wall: The Night Train at Deoli and Other Tales of Delusional Love

·March 19, 2018
·Swati Vijaya

Coming back to finding a utopic home within the narratives from The Night Train at Deoli, the book wasn’t necessarily an escape from what constituted the material home, but rather an assurance that love can have plural possibilities, and so can what comes to be ‘home’.

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The Casteist Charsobeesi[1] of Chachi 420

·October 3, 2017
·Swati Vijaya

Kamal Hassan has come to be quite a literal poster boy of all anti-caste memes lately. To reminisce about the innocence of decades gone by and better situate my current critique, I recently went back to some of his “classics”. Like most Tamil children growing up in that liminal limbo of the 90s, I had…

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Poster of the book 'A pleasant kind of heavy and other erotic stories'. Breasts are drawn with blue ink at the top with bright red background.

Queer Women in Aranyani’s A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Stories*

·September 1, 2017
·Swati Vijaya

Aranyani’s writing most certainly has a sensory charm and no two people are going to experience her narration the same way. I wish you a happy and gloriously gay reading of this fleshy collection of erotic stories!

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