(To get a background on this series, I suggest you start with the first post here and then scroll up)
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Written and narrated by
Abhi Arumbakkam
Animation and edit
Lucy Lee
Sound
Louise Brown
Music
Nefeli Stammatogianopoulu & Stelios Koupetoris
Read the next excerpt here at Voicing Silence 8
Beautiful, hard-hitting. The narration, the animation, and the live-action. Very well done. I watched it thrice in quick succession, and each time, it was equally effective.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Shruthi for your comment. Really appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry I didn't stand by you when this happened. My excuse (and that's what it is) was I was too young to understand the full significance of what happened. No words seem right but if it means anything, I have been on your side ever since realisation set in.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Archana for your very thoughtful comment. Really appreciate it. I had to speak up but only when I was ready to do so. It is time to get talking and stop pretending that "such things do not happen in our community" (as I was told recently).
ReplyDeleteRead all the posts, watched the video. I am sure it took a lot out of you to make it. Justice seems a remote possibility, but I hope it was at least cathartic. I also hope that it provides a way for others similarly placed to come out and voice their own experiences. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThank you, ?! for your thoughtful comment. I sincerely hope it will get people to begin addressing their past traumas and seek help.
ReplyDeleteThis needs to be watched by more people Ammani, I stumbled across this but most likely I would have missed it altogether and would have been poorer for it. Pics/videos definitely say more words than blogs or the written medium can. Thank you for doing this, even the most courageous, free-thinking Indian women stop at 'it happened to my friend' or 'it almost happened to me'. This had the effect on me that was desired, it left me grossed, sucker punched and terribly guilty for not speaking up more on my abuse. - Kavita
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Smothered For years…
Frozen anger
Buried deep
Eulogical chants,
Uttered in delusion
Hollow sounds of
Ignorant grief
Rending the air
The ice cracks
Streams of fury
Gurgling and frothing
Threatening to spill over…
Futile fervour
Not worthwhile
Let Bygones be
The haze has cleared
Seething no more
Rage spent
Breathing calm
In benign repose …
Ardra Vamshi
I am able to relate perfectly with all the episodes and after all these years i can now look at the offender in the eyes and say "you cannot hurt me anymore. May you rot in hell . May your guilty conscience torment you until death. May destiny turn against you. May Lady Luck shun you forever" Thank you Abhi for being a torchlight!
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