Meera Rao

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Soumitra Das |Meera Rao |Kalpish Ratna |Sarish Tripathi

My Name is JasmineShashi WarrierSimon and SchusterRs.499In this saga of “betrayal and revenge”, a woman loses some of her memories. Evidence points to her connection with a major operation. Deprived of her past, will she turn into someone totally unlike what she had been? The LabyrinthGourahari Das, translated from Odia by Manoranjan MishraNiyogi BooksRs. 295Gourahari Das describes his novel about a middle-class woman thus: “At the end of fear lies courage.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Meera Rao

“But you don’t look autistic.” That is the boilerplate response whenever someone learns I am on the autism spectrum. To which I simply deadpan: “Thanks. I’m trying really, really hard not to.”You see, that is precisely the point of being a high-functioning autistic person; we don’t want to be identified by you lot, a society that pathologises autism as an identifiable disability. Far from being disabled, we rely on our sophisticated skill sets to fly under the radar and “fit in”.