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Woman's Work and Woman's Truth

In conception, this volume of stories has arisen from the Indian feminist critique of both culture and canon. In delegating to goddess Kali such a latter-day editorial responsibility for Truth Tales, the myth and its attendant history are invoked at the same time to claim, evidently, a contested ground. The unsigned 'Preface', presumably by the scribacious deity herself, states that 'the idea grew out of the conviction that there existed, outside the framework of Indo-Anglian writing (which had come to be seen as modern Indian writing), a wealth of literature in the regional languages that represented some of the most dynamic trends in Indian writing, that had had little exposure beyond its region' (p. 7). This claim about the writing in the regional languages is justly made, without refuting the relative position or worth of the writing in English. We may note that some earlier anthologies made precisely this point about the regional languages, without the specific considerations of gender. It is this latter basis for the book which brings it together and calls for particular attention.