This is what film maker SRIKANTH VELAGALETI had to say about BGFD;
I have just read your novel and loved it !!!!
I have just read your novel and loved it !!!!
warm regards
Srikanth
oh boy!
Saturday, August 24, 2013
BGFD- A diacussion
HI All,
There is a discussion thread now open on GOOD READS about the book. So any questions you have about the story, about Mira, her friends and her ..uhm enemy, anything else at all, or about my writing in general, please do post. I am looking forward to answering them
Here is the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/110269-q-a-with-maya-sharma-sriram
Maya
There is a discussion thread now open on GOOD READS about the book. So any questions you have about the story, about Mira, her friends and her ..uhm enemy, anything else at all, or about my writing in general, please do post. I am looking forward to answering them
Here is the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/110269-q-a-with-maya-sharma-sriram
Maya
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Bitch Goddess.... in the Hindu
Featured on the list of books to watch out for:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/look-out-for/article4506506.ece
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/look-out-for/article4506506.ece
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
BGFD on a Books that Stood Out list
Bitch Goddess for Dummies on blogger- reader Freya's list of books that stood out for her in 2012
Here is the entire list
Here is the entire list
Saturday, February 9, 2013
La femme Nirvana: 'B' Goddess for Dummies - A review
La femme Nirvana: 'B' Goddess for Dummies - A review: Oh ok!! I still can't make myself say the B***** word! Not that I am a prude or anything - far from that. Believe me if you heard me whi...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
BGFD- on the Cosmopolitan List.
Yes! On The Books You Should Curl Up With list on January 2013 Cosmo issue .
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And look who I am sharing the page with. Oh boy!
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
So where did this book come from.?
That was the first question I was asked at the launch.
Well, there have been many times when things have not gone the way it should have and I have found myself thinking, 'you know what? I need to stop being so nice. ' Then I began to hear many other women echo this feeling. So that led me to wonder- what if? what if there was some body, some woman who decided, one day - enough is enough, No more nice girl.? The idea intrigued me, appealed to my wackier self and I chased the idea down. What kind of woman would actually follow through with this rather bizarre notion? What would she chose to become then? What could drive her to actually undertake this transformation? And thus Mira was born, as was Mira's story.
More questions from the launch to follow.
Do write in with your thoughts
Well, there have been many times when things have not gone the way it should have and I have found myself thinking, 'you know what? I need to stop being so nice. ' Then I began to hear many other women echo this feeling. So that led me to wonder- what if? what if there was some body, some woman who decided, one day - enough is enough, No more nice girl.? The idea intrigued me, appealed to my wackier self and I chased the idea down. What kind of woman would actually follow through with this rather bizarre notion? What would she chose to become then? What could drive her to actually undertake this transformation? And thus Mira was born, as was Mira's story.
More questions from the launch to follow.
Do write in with your thoughts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Of Goddesses and Bitch Goddesses
A friend ran a recent discussion thread on Sita and the various ways she has been interpreted in the various tellings of the Ramayana. . Lot of people had lot to say about Sita and many of them nice things. So I went away to ponder over what it was about her that bothered me. I was surprised by what I discovered.
I wouldn't be so bothered by her if we read Sita like how other cultures read their mythological characters- like how Diana or Athena or Medusa or Venus was read. Like a mythological god from our collective heritage. Unfortunately, Sita has been read , here, in a prescriptive manner. She has been held up as the image of' the 'Ideal Woman' and either directly or subliminally the message has been the one that say she is a n aspirational figure, the one to be emulated.
A lot can be said and has been too about how it stems from the Patriarchal Viewpoint and the desire to perpetuate the concept of wife who treats her husband as master and God. There is one side-story in one of the version of Ramayana, in which one of Sita's friends call her to the temple to pray and she replies saying that now that I am married ,Rama is my god , I cannot pray to another. It doesn't take a genius to figure why such ideas were fostered and encouraged in the female mind. This would have been extremely effective or dangerous. depending on your position in this argument, at a time when education was not accessible to women.
I didn't want to be a goddess and lot of you out there I am sure must have felt the same. I think the unconscious rebelling against such clever subliminal campaigning made me think ,'you know what, I don't want to be a Goddess, what I need to be is a Bitch Goddess"
And so Mira was born. Is that the ideal solution? I could answer it,but alas that would spoil the book for you. So we can discuss it after you read.the book.
A lot of the book is as tongue-in-cheek as the flippant remark I make about wanting to be a BG. So there will be quite a few laughs.
Eager to hear about what you think about Mira's journey.
Maya
I wouldn't be so bothered by her if we read Sita like how other cultures read their mythological characters- like how Diana or Athena or Medusa or Venus was read. Like a mythological god from our collective heritage. Unfortunately, Sita has been read , here, in a prescriptive manner. She has been held up as the image of' the 'Ideal Woman' and either directly or subliminally the message has been the one that say she is a n aspirational figure, the one to be emulated.
A lot can be said and has been too about how it stems from the Patriarchal Viewpoint and the desire to perpetuate the concept of wife who treats her husband as master and God. There is one side-story in one of the version of Ramayana, in which one of Sita's friends call her to the temple to pray and she replies saying that now that I am married ,Rama is my god , I cannot pray to another. It doesn't take a genius to figure why such ideas were fostered and encouraged in the female mind. This would have been extremely effective or dangerous. depending on your position in this argument, at a time when education was not accessible to women.
I didn't want to be a goddess and lot of you out there I am sure must have felt the same. I think the unconscious rebelling against such clever subliminal campaigning made me think ,'you know what, I don't want to be a Goddess, what I need to be is a Bitch Goddess"
And so Mira was born. Is that the ideal solution? I could answer it,but alas that would spoil the book for you. So we can discuss it after you read.the book.
A lot of the book is as tongue-in-cheek as the flippant remark I make about wanting to be a BG. So there will be quite a few laughs.
Eager to hear about what you think about Mira's journey.
Maya
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Encounter with a Real , Live BG!
The writing of this book and thinking about Mira’s dilemma had attuned me to the Bitch
Goddess out there . I want to share one such story with you.
This was at the security check queue at the
airport. We were in queue to place out cabin bags for screening before going
through security gate- you know, where they freely frisk you-yeah that one.
Anyway- the queue was long and tempers
short . Everybody seemed to have lap tops that needed to be removed from
their cases, handbags and a shoulder bag
and all were eager but waiting for their turn. It didn’t help that the queue
was getting longer.
I had inched up to the fifth or the sixth
place and had glimpsed the baggage screening machine, a sight by then almost as
dear as paradise. And as we waited there for our turn, there strode up, oh-so casually,
one madam who by –passed the queue and nonchalantly placed her bag on the
machine and went in to the security check line.
I saw red. “Excuse me, there is a queue here .” I said.
I saw red. “Excuse me, there is a queue here .” I said.
She turned and said, “So what? If you want ,
you put your bag here too.”
And walked off. I wanted to fling her bag
off the machine and yell. Now. Then of course, I was just fuming and could
think of nothing to do or even say.
Needless to say, she got away with her
obnoxious behaviour. As you can see, there are lots of inspiration and role models
for this book.
What’s your Bitch Goddess Story?
Sunday, November 18, 2012
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