‘Mother’s food’ is the most romanticised small talk topic for urban India. But behind such stories there is politics of unacknowledged domestic labour and care work. Jenny Sulfath narrates the politics of her mother’s biryani.
Ameena is taken by Sadashivan’s commitment to the revolution, the ‘book with the red cover’ and his ideas about the capitalist institution of family – she becomes Mrs. Revolution. Read on to know their story, written by Jenny Sulfath in Malayalam and translated by N.Shobhana.