Dei(s) of our lives
Melizarani T.Selva"Dei" is the most complex Tamil term and title to refer to a person. If I like you or want to fight you, I might call you "dei". So, here is this occasional newsletter, enjoying the exploration of every other day alongside some deis.
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Dei, no reason why you can’t ask.
Five minutes before closing time, I push open the glass doors of the bhavan with the might and urgency of a 911 distress call, asking for Milo. The elder waiter anneh looks at me perplexed. He should not entertain my request. It is well pas...
Dei, flee your soft prisons if you dare.
Dei,
On the way to buy gardening shears, my eyes meet a little girl in a pink tutu. She is about four years old, learning to pirouette inside a mall ballet studio, the kind that has mirrored glass for walls and impatient parents for exits...
Dei, it is her, the non-playable character.
Dei,
A woman and a man are standing side by side in queue at a KK Mart. He is buying rolling paper. She is waiting for the transaction to be over. The cashier is a heavyset Indian lady who refuses to be dethroned from her stool. This is e...
Dei, you are not the same you.
Dei,
We're dancing on the peak of Singapore when you ask me "what is your most selfish need?" Nelly Furtado commands our bodies ‘give it to me give it me give it to me’. I answer and you refuse. I repeat and you push against my reply. I s...
Dei, how long is too long, to be away?
Dei,
From the hospital bed, my father asks if there are any nice boys in my future.
I scrawl the letters of my name in the column for ‘NEXT OF KIN’. Another ER nurse announces Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim before piercing my father’s arm...
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Melizarani T.Selva writes and situates between Singapore and Malaysia. Her published stories and plays-in-progress interrogates Indian identity politics, mothering and migranthood.
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