Divya Venkataraman Divya Venkataraman i(16091262 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Syrup Divya Venkataraman , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Sweatshop Women : Volume Two 2020; (p. 39-46)
1 Colouring the Eye of the Beholder Divya Venkataraman , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 170-175)

'In the far north of New South Wales, as fans swung wildly in the heat and sweat beaded on our upper lips in the high summer, my year 11 English teacher sweepingly declared at the front of the classroom that a piece of art is only what we make of it. Our vision, how we see, determines the meaning of the work. Why is the sky grey? Well, that depends on who you ask. Postmodernism had infected the high school teaching syllabi of regional Australia. Subjectivity reigned. The author, was, of course, dead. The art was in what we saw. I was, as was often the case then, the only person of colour in the room. But I couldn’t imagine how this would frame the borders of my imagination, how significantly it could shape my vision.' (Introduction)

1 Love Overdue Divya Venkataraman , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 44 2019; (p. 129-132)
'Our family photo albums, for the first years, are meticulous. Negatives and later, files loaded onto a USB, have been taken to the local Kodak store, printed, chronologically ordered and patiently manoeuvred under plastic sleeves. Back when that was a reasonable use of a Sunday afternoon. Birthday photos - grinning in various stages of the orthodontic process, cake being shoved in our faces by a hand, the rest of the parent or grandparent off camera - give a sense of time passing to the series, gentle indicators slipped in as if to say, 'oh look, another year gone by'.' (Publication abstract)
1 Jimki Divya Venkataraman , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Sweatshop Women : Volume One 2019; (p. 171-178)
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