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Set against the history of Kerala, the Namboodiri community, and the Indian National Freedom struggle, Agnisakshi is a moving portrait of upper-class, upper-caste Kerala society just before and after Independence.

Produktbeschreibung
Set against the history of Kerala, the Namboodiri community, and the Indian National Freedom struggle, Agnisakshi is a moving portrait of upper-class, upper-caste Kerala society just before and after Independence.
Autorenporträt
Lalithambika Antharjanam(1907-1987) was tutored at home in Sanskrit and Malayalam, and acquired proficiency in English and Hindi on her own. An active participant in the social reform movements of Kerala in the early 1920s, she won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Agnisakshi in 1979. Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan has a doctorate in History from Madras University. Apart from translating works into English, she has curated the Women's Film Festival, held by InKo Centre, Chennai, and has been on the jury of the International Film Festival of Kerala.