Una canción: Woman (Susheela Raman)

La canta-autora británico-tamil Susheela Raman (1973) publicó en 2001 su primer disco titulado "Salt Rain", muestra de sus ideas musicales de fusión de la música occidental con sus raíces indias. También dejó claro su compromiso más allá de la música con temas como "Woman". En su página oficial podemos leer el siguiente comentario:

Woman is a song about someone in a destructive relationship who is looking for the way out. As Susheela urges her on, the song transforms into a mesmeric chant invoking the Goddess Kali, a kind of archetype of feminine power. Susheela’s family has long tradition of Kali devotion and the intensity that comes through shows it. The song also describes situations she can relate to in her own family history. Indian woman have often had to endure a lot… family and social structures are very patriarchal and women are expected sometimes to sacrifice their own happiness on the altar of family honor. Woman features the amazing Egyptian percussion virtuoso Hosam Ramzi (who has played with many artists including Peter Gabriel and Page and Plant).

En Woman podemos encontrarnos con la misma idea de recuperación de la dignidad femenina que en el cine de la directora Deepa Mehta. Susheela Raman utiliza su arte para transmitir la fuerza necesaria para resistirse a unas formas culturales que hacen de la mujer un objeto.



Woman (Susheela Raman)

Woman, where’s your dignity?
How can you lie there while the lover destroys you?
He doesn’t know your worth
But you bear his burden and make it yours
Why do you cry?
Woman, don’t be tortured by a madman
You’ve got to get out
The prison door is open
Woman, why do you rest here?
Is your love an ignorant sacrifice?
Roles you learned to play
Conspire against you and hold you down
Why don’t you fight
Um Krim Kali e Nama