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A Japanese candy company has been making national news headlines for its idea to produce gummy candy that tastes like an 'imaginary fruit' called Kiraspika (キラスピカ). ....
Why ‘The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories’ deserves a space on every feminist and political bookshelf Indu Menon’s women refuse to play passive victim. They rebel, they make themselves visible, and avenge themselves on their oppressors. Indu Menon revels in the grotesque. The cover image of her The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories is a cow with a woman’s torso, in a nurse’s uniform, spattered with blood, standing against a tree seemingly conjured out of blood, with branches that look suspiciously like veins. At her feet are flowers – white, dainty perfect. It is this juxtaposition of the commonplace with the surreal, the grotesque with the beautiful, that informs much of Menon’s writing. Meticulously crafted, steeped in the poetry of the ordinary, this translation of Menon’s collection of stories from 2002 by Nandakumar K does not seem to have aged at all in the nineteen years that separate the Malayalam stories from their English translations. ....