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I WANT TO DESTROY MYSELF

Release date: 1 January 2016
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Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parentsher father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a tr... Read More

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Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parentsher father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of the 1960s and exposed to the best and the brightest in Bombays cultural scene, Malika was a cosseted child, drawn to poetry and dance. She was barely out of school when she married Namdeo Dhasal, co-founder of the radical Dalit Panthers and celebrated poet of the underground who transformed Marathi poetry with his incendiary verse. After the initial days of love and the birth of their son, the marriage crumbled. Namdeo was an absent husband and fathergiven to drink, womanizing and violenceand uninterested in his family. And while he would repent his actions and his negligence and they would make up, he never stopped or reformed. I Want to Destroy Myself is Malikas searing, angry account of her life with Dhasal. The unvarnished story of a marriage and of a woman and a writer seeking her space in a mans world, Malika Amar Shaikhs autobiography is also a portrait of the Bombay of poets, activists, prostitutes and fighters. There isnt another memoir in Indian writing as honest and pitiless as this. Published originally in Marathi, it quickly became a sensation and vanished as quickly. Jerry Pintos superb translation revives this lost classic and makes it available for the first time in any language other than Marathi.

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Title: I WANT TO DESTROY MYSELF
Author: Malika Amar Shaikh/ trans. by Jerry Pinto
Publisher: SPEAKING TIGER
SKU: BK0384369
EAN: 9789386050960
Number Of Pages: 200
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 1 January 2016

About Author

Malika Amar Shaikh is a writer. Other than her autobiography, Mala Uddhvasta Vhaychay, her published work includes books of poetry: Valucha Priyakar (A Lover Made of Sand), Mahanagar (Metropolis), Deharutu (Seasons of the Body) and Manuspanacha Bhinga Badalyavar (When the Lens of Being Human Changes); works of fiction: Ek Hota Undir (There Was Once a Mouse), Koham Koham? (Who Am I?), Handle with Care and Jhadpanachi Ghosht (The Story of a Tree) and a biography of her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, Sura Eka Vadalacha (The Song of a Storm). Jerry Pinto (translator) is an acclaimed poet, novelist and translator. His published work includes the award-winning novel Em and the Big Hoom and translations from the Marathi of Daya Pawar’s Baluta, Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue and Vandana Mishra’s I, the Salt Doll.

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