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Self k . S ATCHI d ANAN d AN My mother didn’t belie ve when, in 1945, I appeared to h er in a dream and told h er I would be born to her the following year. My father recognized m e As soon as he sa w the mole below my left thum b. But Mother believed to the ver y end that someone else had been born t o her masquerading as me. Father and I pleaded with h er; but dreams are not reliable witn esses. She went on waiting for t hat promised son till she died Only when she was reborn as my daug hter did she admit it had really been me. But by then I had begun to do ubt it was someone else’s he art that was beating within my body. One day I will retrieve my he art; my language too. Translation from Malayalam by author http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

Self

Satchidanandan, K.
Manoa , Volume 31 (2) – Dec 18, 2019
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k . S ATCHI d ANAN d AN My mother didn’t belie ve when, in 1945, I appeared to h er in a dream and told h er I would be born to her the following year. My father recognized m e As soon as he sa w the mole below my left thum b. But Mother believed to the ver y end that someone else had been born t o her masquerading as me. Father and I pleaded with h er; but dreams are not reliable witn esses. She went on waiting for t hat promised son till she died Only when she was reborn as my daug hter did she admit it had really been me. But by then I had begun to do ubt it was someone else’s he art that was beating within my body. One day I will retrieve my he art; my language too. Translation from Malayalam by author

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