Juby Cheruvathoor

Subverting Patriarchal Scripts: A Gendered and Queer Reading of Sudha Murty’s Gently Falls the Bakula

Sudha Murty’s Gently Falls the Bakula (2008) has generally been received as domestic fiction concerned with marital estrangement. This article contends that the novel performs a sustained critique of the patriarchal and heteronormative structures that govern middle-class Indian conjugality in the late twentieth century...