Kuzhali Manickavel Archives

DISTURBING DIALOGUES: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel

Verity La September 9, 2010 Lighthouse Yarns

ALEC PATRIC You have warned me not to ask you what life in India is like. I wouldn’t even have thought to ask you that, but I must confess, you’ve …

Verity La August 10, 2010 Lighthouse Yarns

K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …

Verity La August 10, 2010 Lies to Live By

K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …

One Day in English (Francesca Rendle-Short)November 17, 2011
One day in English things did go haywire. The teachers must have known exactly who Glory was the day she arrived. News would have travelled fast around the staffroom ... Read More
Fudgepackers (Daniel Young)August 5, 2016
“Fudgepackers!” said John, referring to our American corporate overseers. The spaceship-like Polycom phone had only just made a final crackle before falling silent, so my offence at him using that ... Read More
On the Importance of Fighting Violence Against Women: Melissa Blais's "I hate feminists!"May 23, 2015
Review by Camilla Patini On December 6, 1989, a 25-year-old man burst into an engineering school, the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada. Declaring ‘You’re all a bunch of feminists, ... Read More