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Prameela KP (left) with Sarojini Sahoo at International Book Fair, Calicut , 2008.
You are known as Simone de beaviour of India. Where you put yourself as an Indian women thinker?
I have never claimed any day myself to as similar as Simone.They are the critiques who compare me with the great feminist. But as far the life style of mine, some body may find some how similarity and dissimilarity with Simone.Like her,I have an elder sister Sneha and a friend Sanju in my adolescent days and later Sanju made a suicide. You can find these facts resemblance to the role of Poupette(her sister) and Zaza (her friend) but dissimilarity is ,I have no such involvement with them as Simone had. She had a living together relationship with an eminent philosopher and writer Sartre and I married to Jagadish, who is a prominent Indian writer and some how our understandings are similar to Sartre and Simone where we don’t want to impose any bar in each other’s freedom..Simone was an atheist, whereas I am not.Though Simone devotes a sizeable section of the The Second Sex to the topic of motherhood but she was never a biological mother, when I am a mother of two young kids. But I consider these facts have no more importance to find any similarities or dissimilarities. Probably the critiques find some how a similarity of Simone’s attempt to dissect female heart and brain with my stories. In my writings, I want to only portray the feelings of woman from her preschooler days to the post menopausal days. I think, there are some feelings, intricate mental agony and complexity which a man couldn’t feel any day and these should be discussed in our fictions. I portray the feelings of a pregnant lady (Waiting for Manna), hysteria (Burkha,and Deshantari),fear of being miscarriage (Sakal:The Morning) false pregnancy (Tarali Jauthiba Durga :The Melting Castle) , agony of and annoyance of menopause (Damppatya:The Couple ),Lesbianism (Behind the scene). I have also portray the shaking situation of a sixty years old lady, who is still waiting for her menopause and in every month her embarrassing situation when she find herself in bleeding (Aparanha : Afternoon).Even in my story Jahllad (Butcher) I have told the story of an infant who finds herself being raped by a caretaker servant.
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