vasantha surya english writer biography
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A torrent of words, emotions. Vasantha Surya has too many things to say, all at the same time. Culture, women's rights, politics, languages, the interface between tradition and change. Issues she has taken up in umpteen articles on social reform and development. These she has meticulously bound into three big volumes.
But there's no way she can file away the sentiments that provoked them. "Society is full of a conflicting consciousness," the 58-year-old Chennai-based writer lets on, pausing to listen to her own words. "And people are only too eager to articulate their experiences of the changes around them."
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Vasantha was born in 1923 in Kundrathur, then based in Ramanathapuram district.
Surya, Vasantha 1942-
Works: 18 works in 29 publications in 2 languages and 336 library holdings
Genres: Biographies Fiction Psychological fiction Poetry
Roles: Author, Translator
A torrent of words, emotions. Vasantha Surya has too many things to say, all at the same time. Culture, women's rights, politics, languages, the interface between tradition and change. Issues she has taken up in umpteen articles on social reform and development. These she has meticulously bound into three big volumes.
But there's no way she can file away the sentiments that provoked them. "Society is full of a conflicting consciousness," the 58-year-old Chennai-based writer lets on, pausing to listen to her own words. "And people are only too eager to articulate their experiences of the changes around them."
The conflicts make her talk of history and change in the same breath, with the same lashings of passion. And as an immediate consequence, about her new book, Contemporary Tamil Short Fiction (East West), a compendium of Tamil short stories that she liked, selected and translated into English.
The book upholds the remarkable Tamil virtue to "adjist", to make do in the face of anything. A virtue that "has helped retain sanity" in a society so steeped in history, yet so eager to moot change.
The matter of "adjistment" ring throughout, in representing characters as people recognisable anywhere, in showing the Tamil language as "accommodating itself to new values", in using Indian English, specifically Tamil English, to convey the liveliness of the native speech. Says Surya: "The writer of English feels his voice almost as a physical force demanding to be amplified."
Though Surya did her high school in the US, Tamil, her mother tongue, found her before she could find it. During her travels and stints in different places as housewife and mother, she taught herself history and the languages ("You cannot be passionate about history without knowing the languages"). So she learnt German while in Germany, Hindi while in Mumbai.
There are so many cultures, so many ways to communicate," Surya pre-empts. "Do we understand the wealth of our languages? Why is it that there are so few of us who are fully, genuinely trilingual ?" The torrent of emotions again.