# Playing the Dark Goddess

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2015/07/19/playing-the-dark-goddess/
- Published: 2015-07-19T18:11:09+00:00
- Author: admin

Rate this post

**Description: **
 [](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/modules/booklists/visit.php?cid=15&lid=682)

**Author:** Lata Ramaswamy
 **Pages:** 55 **Year of Publication:** 1998 **Price:**
Rs 80 **ISBN:** 81-7595-398-5 (8175953985)

**_ About the Author:_**
 Lata Ramaswamy works in Bangalore as a professional interior
design consultant. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and sustains her interest
in this field as well.

**_ Teaser:_**

From _Prologue_

I

Essentially,
 What else does a man Do with women? He makes them Objects of desire,
Sometimes perfect, Sometimes flawed; And their souls lie Unloved.

II.

Inventing the Dark Goddess

Perhaps the oldest profession
 Was born of the oldest oppression; The kind of mindset
that said A man with sixteen thousand women Can still be a brahmacharin, divine;
But a woman with five husbands Is little better than a whore, shameless: So that
a man may mimic the Dark God In a bona fide search, and be praised, But a woman 
has no such spaces In which to look for answers.

**_Contents:_**
 PROLOGUE / 9 ACT I / 13 INTERLUDE / 33 ACT II / 35 ACT III / 51
EPILOGUE / 55