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SPECIAL SERIES Rukimini Bhaya Nair,
40 THE BELIEVER Rukmini Bhaya Nair has a Bengali father and a Goan mother. She also has a combination of academic rigour and poetic sensibility. It found expression this year in The Ayodhya Cantos, a collection that flowed from the events of a December afternoon in 1992. It demanded a "sociological treatment" of the "communalist Babri culture and consumerist Barbie culture" of our age. To anybody under the impression that this professor of linguistics at IIT Delhi is an ingenue trying to look intellectual, the titles of her forthcoming books should suffice: Lying on the Post-Colonial Couch and Rushdie's Reversals. Nair won a major all India poetry competition in 1990. When she tells you she signed up only because the first prize -- a ticket to London -- would enable her to attend linguistic conferences, you believe her. With Nair, it's typical. -Ashok Malik |
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