[This is an excerpt from the introduction I wrote to the translation of Lalitambika Antharjanam’s Agnisakshi, published by OUP in  2015] Agnisakshi, Lalitambika Antharjanam’s only novel, appeared relatively later in her long and illustrious writing career that stretched from the late 1920s to the end of the 1980s. While she had begun her career as … Continue reading Agnisakshi: Lalitambika Antharjanam’s Critique of Individualism