Monday, April 1 2002
Thoughts On A Departed Child
- Maya Khankhoje Maya Khankhoje is one of the talented new voices in the evolving literature
of science fiction and fantasy. Long dominated by Western-centric
technological positivists, speculative fiction has become more complex
today --- it asks more difficult questions, takes less for granted and
includes more diverse voices than ever before. However the so-called Third
World is still under-represented in speculative fiction, not only in terms
of setting and subject matter, but also in terms of writers and points of
view that are unique to its many cultures. Maya Khankhoje's writings help
fill a great void.
Click here to read Maya Khankhoje's profile by Vandana Singh and two short fiction pieces.
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Bo. His name was as short as his life. He was born on children's day and he died on children's day, as befits a child who only lived to be a child. Christianity believes there is a place called purgatory, where little souls such as his cleanse and purge themselves. It is also called limbo-land. There, you hang out in space like a Koala bear on the limb of a tree. I prefer to think that he returned to that wonderful cosmic matter from where he came. Life on Earth is just a chink in time. Bo chose to leave it through the warm earth of a place called "Las Cruces" overlooking the beautiful Bay of Acapulco. I now see him in every rustling leaf and snow crystal and tender smile of sleeping child.
His father believes we are picked from infinity by an egg and a sperm and slapped into finity. Bo is no longer finite.
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