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Celebrating Women's Day On Women's Day, (8th March, 2004), Daya Dissanayake, the author of "The Bastard Goddess" will gift a free copy of the book to anyone who sends an e-mail to [email protected]. This would be the writer's gift to all womankind, on the day dedicated to them, which also happens to be his birthday. "The Bastard Goddess" reveals the story about three generations of women in Sri Lanka. Mother Prema, daughter Teja and granddaughter Mahima. Prema has always been under male domination. She is the daughter, the wife, the mother, the house slave, the passive onlooker, as life goes on around her. Teja is the fighter, who tries to fight against the society, fails but fights again in her attempt to end her own suffering. Mahima is the liberator, trying to end all suffering. All three women are also one. Teja and Mahima are already inside Prema, struggling to come out, as they had always done throughout history. Teja and Mahima had lived before this, but were always put down by man. Only Prema has been with us always, because man never considered her as a threat. The three women could also be described the Holy Feminine Trinity or the Triple Goddess, She who is ever Three - Maid, Mother and Crone. The story wind us up with a spectacular theory about Woman and Buddhahood. Explaining the meaning of the title, Dissanayake says he did not use the word "bastard" as an insult. He had used it to identify a child who does not have a "legal" father. It is not the child's fault, that its mother could not or did not legally marry the man who was responsible for the conception. The term "bastard" should be an insult to the father, not the child. In the near future an unwed mother could also have a cloned child. The word "goddess" is used for the divine or the Feminine self that lives inside all mankind. |
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