• Home
  • News
  • Longform
  • Life
    • Jeans
    • Madam Zeenat’s Feminist Tarot
  • Health
  • Work
  • Culture
    • Books
    • Art
    • Music
    • Fashion
    • Cinema
    • TV
  • Sports
  • Kranti
  • Vaanthi
  • The FAK
  • About
    • Submissions
  • Home
  • News
  • Longform
  • Life
    • Jeans
    • Madam Zeenat’s Feminist Tarot
  • Health
  • Work
  • Culture
    • Books
    • Art
    • Music
    • Fashion
    • Cinema
    • TV
  • Sports
  • Kranti
  • Vaanthi
  • The FAK
  • About
    • Submissions
HomeBooksAmar Chitra Katha Conducts a Seance, Reincarnates ...

Amar Chitra Katha Conducts a Seance, Reincarnates Sarojini Naidu as Sushma Swaraj

June 3, 2013

From the Amar Chitra Katha on MS Subhalakshmi's life

There has been some disagreement amongst my friends about the resemblance (or lack thereof) of this Sarojini-toon to Sushma Swaraj, but I’m convinced it’s a full-on soul transference thing. Funnily enough, this Sarojini-Sushma cross-dimensional freaky friday switch is not the most awful thing about this Amar Chitra Katha on M.S. Subbulakshmi’s life.

The amnesia about caste is. We are supposed to believe that the only obstacle that M.S. Subbulakshmi faced was being a woman. I wishfully presumed that they would at least mention she wasn’t Brahmin so as to give their comic a narrative arc — she defied the odds, etc.

By the way, want to know ACK’s version of how she overcome being a woman in a man’s world?  Her benevolent husband fixes her problems, of course. And I won’t even come to all the MS = Mother India stuff.

Obviously, the expectations of an Amar Chitra biography have to be muted, but they have rather implausibly managed to make her life utterly boring. So I leave you with this picture of a youthful Subbulakshmi with her bestie Balasaraswati. It was responsible for much internet-exclaiming last year.

balasaraswati_subbulakshmi_20111219
Published in Outlook Magazine. Shot in 1937.

Tags: amar chitra katha, caste, ms subbualakshmi, sarojini naidu

Share!
Tweet

ladiesfinger

About the author

Related Posts

After Payal Tadvi’s Death Can We Allow Medical Education to Continue to Pretend to be Casteless?

What Women Wore to the Women’s Wall in Kerala

In What World Is Trupti Desai the Biggest Problem in the Sabarimala Mess? A Nice Delusional World

A Flash Back to the First Woman Who Went Legally to Sabarimala. And A Flash Forward

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Trending

Sorry. No data so far.

Subscribe to our email newsletter!

You May Also Like

  • After Payal Tadvi’s Death Can We Allow Medical Education to Continue to Pretend to be Casteless? May 28, 2019
  • Jokha Alharthi’s Man Booker Win Reminds Us of Oman’s Recent Slave-owning Past May 24, 2019
  • In Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow is Sexy, Sterile and So Burnt By Marvel May 12, 2019
  • Let Us Admit the Sins of Atishi Marlena May 10, 2019
  • 20 Questions for SC Panel that Cleared the CJI of Sexual Harassment Charges May 9, 2019


Online Bachchi, Dil Ki Sachchi

Come on over for feminist journalism.

Politics. Pop Culture. Health. Sex. Law. Books. Work.

We write what we want to read.

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Refund Policy
  • About
  • Contact Us

Subscribe to our email newsletter!

Keep up with us!

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on YouTubeFollow Us on E-mail

Trending

Sorry. No data so far.

Copyright © 2018 The Ladies Finger
Subscribe to our RSS/Atom feed here