In this Memory Lane, I talk to an Indian woman who now resides in the United States. Her name is Lopamudra - 'One who does the hand motions' -- & she explains her very layered life. If there is a woman who has lived what is an abstract concept for many people -- multiculturalism -- it is Lopamudra. Her family entered the post-colonial Anglified Bouergoisie of the Indian nation after the partition and the intercine conflicts that followed. After they fled, they were able to rise in social strata in their new home & send their children to private Catholic schools. Educated in the Catholic way, from a Anglified Hindu upper-class family, Lopamudra brings with her the layers of history, colonialism, & later Feminism, that would characterize her unique experience & outlook.

Lopamudra starts from a memory of a lie. A lie that, in retrospect, was not that consequential, but for her it marked her moment of symbolic castration. From here, her guilt grew. Listen to this story of a woman situated in the matrix of the multicultural- an academic feminist who imagines a death that pre-dated her. 'That little baby haunted me', she says of her dead brother. 

Listen to Lopamudra's story

Musick:
Rebel Heart (DJ FmSteff 2015 Totalmix) - Madonna
Hit Em Wit Da Hee (Instrumental) - Missy Elliott

Memory Lane - Lopamudra

Jakob Kesava Moscow