Words Awaiting Another Voice

Words awaiting another voice tells the story of Sneha, the aspiring writers enigma of self when her beautiful world of dreams comes crashing down with all sorts of rejection-slips as she encounters some of the harsh realities of our consumerist, self-centered culture and society. The narrative is marked by a writerly stream of consciousness-technique, metafictional and intertextual tropes which rip apart the hypocritical and attractive faade of our society. Ironically enough, Sneha is advised to strategise her way to success. In other words, the novel aesthetically offers a criticism of our present times where, in place of self-realisation and self-recognition the relentless and shameless self-promotion is offered as the goal of life in this media-mediated, lit-fest-infested world. The novel also foregrounds Snehas firm belief in the shabda-shakti or the power of the word. Expressing oneself through written word can give one a tremendous and unimaginable sense of power. Throughout the narrative, the intertextual and contextual appearances of the episodes from Snehas first (unpublished) novel Chameleon add interesting dimensions as it finally allows Snehas voice to find space and freedom to reach a wider audience...