Comments on: Remembering Siddamma

By: Tsippy Monat. Israel

Tsippy Monat. Israel — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:40:05 +0000

Dear Usha.
I read your article about Siddamma, the tribale midwife and I would like very much to get intouch with he doughter. can you help me to locate her?
Tanx a lot
Tsippy Monat. Israel

By: danielweltch

danielweltch — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:30:38 +0000

Thank you for telling her story.

By: Dilnavaz Bamboat

Dilnavaz Bamboat — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:23:02 +0000

Thank you for telling her story, Usha. It is so important to be the voice of people who have limited range. May we share many such histories of hope and heroism on this page in the months to come.

By: usha

usha — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:51:46 +0000

yes, history becomes stories of privelaged lot. I remember my first histroy classes at school. It was about ‘rani chennamma’ and some women like her, who faught ‘just like men’…as if other women who lives during those times where not doing anything worth while to talk about. Women are not seen as people who influence and get influnced by various things that happen around them, they are not seen as peole who’ make ‘ history. No wonder Siddamma will be comfortably forgotten, no matter how much yarakana gadde poodu people fondly remember her…….

By: Anindita Sengupta

Anindita Sengupta — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:43:34 +0000

This is a lovely story, Usha. It’s true that the lives of so-called ‘ordinary’ women are often forgotten, their memories mislaid, their histories obliterated. It’s nice that some efforts are being made to document Siddamma’s knowledge. It would also be helpful if the organization spread this knowledge far and wide.

By: apu

apu — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:56:49 +0000

these are truly our unsung heroes. the challenge is to really use our indigenous knowledge well in present times. lack of documentation probably has been one of the reasons these skills are dying out, since in our oral tradition, knowledge passes out with the death of the giver unless there is someone to take it…