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Litterateur
November 2020
The confessions of a
Reluctant Doue'e
Pina, you are the Doue’e for the month of
November.
And Pina, wrote to us
I would like to express my deep gratitude for including me in this exciting new
journal, Litterateur Redefining World, which, from its base in Southern India, is
on its way to creating and developing much needed transnational networks of
writers and visual artists, hopefully equipped to resist and take on the
challenges of the contemporary world.
However, I do have some misgivings related to fitting into the Doue category,
not because of false modesty, but because I think the emphasis on individual
abilities, ‘talents’, prizes is counterproductive in today’s societies which
increasingly, at a global level, are based on individualism, the spectacular and
the ‘extraordinary’ at the expense of acknowledging interdependence. When I
see Simon Cowell and the glamorization of ‘talent’ my instinctive reaction is to
cringe and internally release a scream for the urgent need of paradigm shift.
Pina as a baby
with her sisters
and mother.
