I Read Stories: An Irregular List Of The Effects Of Fire On Poor Women by Mandira Pattnaik

 

An Irregular List Of The Effects Of Fire On Poor Women by Mandira Pattnaik in Pithead Chapel

Of course fire is sacred. Solemn. A list of fire-related events in the lives of poor women. Fire is sacred, as the list declares again and again. The fire that bears witness at a Hindu wedding. The fire that lights the funeral pyre.

The fire that makes a light that can’t be put out.

Read This: Fire enlightens, burns, destroys
Don’t Read This: The stories are just sketches