Varuna Naicker

Varuna Naicker is a Fijian-Indian writer from Penrith, immigrating to Australia when her parents moved from Fiji in 1999. She holds a Bachelor of Communication degree and a Master degree in Public Policy and Governance. Varuna has deep interest in how social institutions form people’s perception of themselves and the perception of the world around them. This is reflected in her works that span across different forms of media, including film and writing.

Bookcover: Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill

Daisy and Woolf: Western stories are not the only stories that deserve to be told.

By Varuna Naicker

Daisy and Woolf: Western stories are not the only stories that deserve to be told. Cahill’s Daisy and Woolf is a postmodernist triumph because it demands truth telling even in works of the most established literary canon. Cahill achieves this through the ongoing motif of Mina’s mother. Her mother’s journey from Nairobi, England, Australia and her experiences of being an Anglo-Indian woman ground Mina as she imagines the fictionalised life of Daisy. “How much more difficult it would have been for Daisy Simmons to immigrate. I have to give Daisy a voice and a body.” By weaving and threading the life of Daisy together through thoughtful research to understand the socio-political context of the colonised India.

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