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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalThe secret exploded…and then, five women’s lives changed forever.
Padmini is a respected and much-loved obstetrician and gynaecologist who has spent all her life living and working in Thandikudi, a remote tribal hamlet in the Palani Hills, South India. Shama teaches Women’s Studies in a well-known college in Chennai. She shares a great relationship with her mother, Padmini. Muniamma is Padmini’s trusted domestic help who knows more than she reveals. Malini, a contented homemaker, and her daughter, Dharini, still struggle to come to terms with the unexplained ‘disappearance’ of the most important person in their lives.
Who is this person who knits the lives of these women?
Light and Shadow traces the personal journeys of the five women as they struggle to make peace with their past and move forward.
Nandini Murali
Dr. Nandini Murali is a gender, diversity and communications professional and also an independent researcher in Indic Studies. She has a doctorate in Women’s Studies from the Alagappa University, Karaikudi, and has been engaged with the social sector for more than two decades in the areas of gender, sexuality, masculinities and mental health. In 2018, she established SPEAK, an initiative of MS Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, to change conversations on suicide and promote mental health.
Light and Shadow is her first fiction. Earlier, she had co-authored A Life in Trans Activism published by Zubaan Books, New Delhi. She is currently translating a memoir by a well-known Tamil author and working on another non-fiction.
Passionate about wildlife photography, she loves to wander in the forests with her camera. As part of her efforts to share her passion, she formed Voices of the Wild (VoW) to introduce school children in Madurai to nature and wildlife photography.
