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Summary Of Enugantha Tandrikanna Ekulabuttantha Tallinayam

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Gogu Shyamala is a leading writer and activist in Telangana, championing the cause of the marginalized and the exploited in the emerging era of globalization. She published the collection of short stories “Enugantha Tandrikanna Ekulabuttantha Tallinayam” (‘Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But..’) in 2012, in Telugu. The short stories are translated by individual translators retaining, to the most extent possible, the locale, and the naturality of the humble characters of the productive community of one of the most exploited sections of Telangana region in India. The title of the collection is a popular rural saying in the region, which means that a humble mother is far better than a father who may be like an elephant. The title itself spells out the age old wisdom coupled with humbleness on the part of ‘Mother’. The stories deal with the lives and struggles of the madiga community most of who are in agricultural operations, labor activities and cleaning practices. For thousands of years they have remained in the state of exploitation and marginalization in the social order. The writer vividly dramatizes the pain, the struggles and the resistance of the humble characters in their unassumed and natural environs in the yawning face of suppression, exploitation and marginalization. Gogu Shyamala’s short stories in this collection mark a difference from her other writings. She focuses on exploring the historical processes and

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