Preeti’s story focuses on a quiet woman full of thoughts and her relationships with her mother and her daughter.
Selvi lives in a slum and works as a cleaner in a posh-looking construction company. Preeti Madhusudhan captures a day in the life of Selvi in a story that throws light on the dark corners of a booming India, where shiny, glass buildings stand in sharp contrast to heart-wrenching poverty. A work of fiction that brings two contradictory shades of Indianness to the fore.
Preeti Madhusudhan writes a story about the turbulent emotional ride and longing for her motherland that an Indian woman living in Sydney goes through on the 2nd of October – Gandhi’s birthday that also happens to be the auspicious day of Mahanavami, the 9th day of Dusshera.
An Indian, an Afghani and a Bosnian find themselves sitting together in a Sydney gym the afternoon of the hostage attack in the city in December 2014. The conversation that ensues compels each woman to dig into her own past. Preeti Madhusudhan describes the conversation, under the theme ‘History & Culture’.
Preeti Madhusudhan has been associated with us since May 2011. Preeti’s writing style is one that reminds you of the language that you find in literary classics. She is a versatile writer who can write across subjects as varied as architecture, science, history and life. Preeti’s stories and essays also have well-researched information that makes reading them a pleasurable as well as a great learning experience.
An interview with Preeti Madhusudhan.
It’s rare to find someone who works hard on a task not because they desire results but because it is a duty that has to be performed to perfection. Preeti Madhusudhan writes the story of three brothers and their father whom they revere and is their biggest inspiration.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE In the final part of her series on travelling the route taken by the tribal chieftan-turned-devout poet Thirumagaiazhvar, Preeti Madhusudhan describes delightfully the last stop, the temple dedicated to the Azhvar at Tiruvali.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE In the second part of her series exploring the path taken by the tribal chieftan-turned-Vaishnavite poet Kaliyan, or Thirumangayazhwar, Preeti describes her journey to the temples whose Lords the Azhwar sang about, in Tirunarayur, Tirukannapuram and Nagapattinam. All along, be prepared for a treat of the Azhwar’s poetry translated into English, and Preeti’s exquisite commentary around them.
In this multi-part series, Preeti Madhusudhan tells us of her journey following the trail of one of the most enigmatic Tamil poets, tribal king-turned-robber-turned-poet Thirumangai Alvar. Read on for her journey through Tamil Nadu’s rustic temples.