#andaal

[parwatisingari]

When The Gods Sleep

A Dhanurmasa Morning with Tiruppavai. Sunday mornings at Aunt Selvi’s house have a predictable rhythm. Someone is always late. Someone is always hungry. And someone—usually Jenny—will press play on the wrong thing. That Sunday, it was Suprabhatam. The familiar opening strains floated out of the speaker just as the coffee decoction reached its dark, fragrant peak. Aunt Selvi was already at the…

When The Gods Sleep

[naryamirie]

You delude others

don’t delude

Yourself

[...]

or beware

defeat me

and You defeat Yourself

Kotai, “Andal: the autobiography of a goddess” (tr. Priya Sarukkai Chabria)

[naryamirie]

“Translating ‘The Autobiography Of A Goddess’: Concept “

Priya Sarukkai Chabria