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Welcome.

The Granddaughter’s Musings is an attempt to create a platform to engage with the causes the author is passionate about, through her readings on literature and culture.

The page features her love for the seemingly mundane and is dedicated to her grandparents, who had settled down in Kerala from Tamil Nadu before independence in the early 1940s. She was born and brought up in Kerala in a household which flourished around her grandmother’s ( Paatti’s) stories of her Tamil roots and her teacher grandfather’s (Thatha’s) staunch principles. The author also dedicates this page to all the strong female presences in hers and the readers’ lives, who have without a bit of highly wielded theory, taught respect, humanity and the politics of equity. Most of her writings are in English, but she has an affinity to write in Tamil and Hindi too.

The photographs in this page are captured by the author, of spaces across time and her native country, India. Copyright 2020 @thegranddaughtersmusings

For the moments that you live in most of your life are not under the green blankets of shade but the harsh rocky roads of fiery burns. What life have you lived, what people have you seen, what places have you been, if not laced with such recognition?(courtesy Paatti’s (grandma’s) saying from Malayalam ” Daridryam Enthenn Arinjavarke Paaril Paraklesha Vivekam Ullu”)

• Search & Found
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  August 5, 2020
  You left your shoes somewhere Somewhere in the dark Oh yes they were new Pretty like your heart You stumble across theContinue reading “Search & Found”
• Upcoming
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  August 4, 2020
  English translations of the poems in Hindi will be up on the page soon. Meanwhile enjoy the other content. Thanks for reading.Continue reading “Upcoming”
• Filter Kaapi(फ़िल्टर कIपी)
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  August 4, 2020
  उन दिनों से काफी वक्त हो गयादिल दिमाग सब कुछ रीत से सख्त हो गयाकाश के तुम कुछ बंदोबस्त कर जातीअपने गुज़िश्ताContinue reading “Filter Kaapi(फ़िल्टर कIपी)”
• On Raksha Bandhan (रक्षा बंधन पे )
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  August 3, 2020
  शायद ये किसी का कसूर न होये हाथ हमेशा भाई के मुट्ठी पे न होअपने पैर पे खड़े होके जीना सीखा हैतूContinue reading “On Raksha Bandhan (रक्षा बंधन पे )”
• I see You
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  August 1, 2020
  Regale malevolence,Beyond those uncharted territories of coy,And Vagrant tentacles of warmth,Roams around in artA deardrie – plush sound aboundAches Somewhere black,Serenades swiftContinue reading “I see You”
• On Hashtag Movements and Misinformation
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  July 30, 2020
  Before you post another Black N White picture in the name of a challenge, Do take the time and kindly read this.Continue reading “On Hashtag Movements and Misinformation”
• When Courage & You are Feet Apart ?
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  July 28, 2020
                 Somehow today John Nash’s words came to my mind and I went about the day with those clutched close to myContinue reading “When Courage & You are Feet Apart ?”
• Poisoned Apples
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  July 26, 2020
  I have been climbing the stairs for long, White stairs and a fairly brown me, We make our haggard movements gay, AContinue reading “Poisoned Apples”
• 360 Degrees
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  July 25, 2020
  Today is not the day to give into fear Loosing perspective of all Things you hold dear… Sleep as if you areContinue reading “360 Degrees”
• Perpetual Slumber
  by thegranddaughtersmusings
  July 23, 2020
  To wake up from this stagnancy is a wish avant gardeWould you please knock damn it knock until you knock it offContinue reading “Perpetual Slumber”