Dr. Cheryl Antonette Dumenil

  Can there be a day I go without a sigh or cry?   Perhaps  Every awakening day- I decide to walk through it beautifully. Expecting to fill in my gratitude journal  And ah!  There I get frozen- in a crowded bus being molested by some stranger  and  Yes… I Sigh and cry.  Then I wonder.  Is my identity a reason?  Then again I wonder  Do I have an identity? I’m just a girl a woman, a female after all… To be used  For pleasure  and my pain goes in vain  and  Yes… I Sigh and cry.  But then I realise my responsibility,  as a Mother I nurture my son, to respect every girl, woman and female as his own sister, mother and grandmother.  I teach him and help him understand  that it hurts to be ill-treated no matter what gender you belong to.  I teach him To respect, love and care  And  Yes… I cry with joy for I’ve penned in my journal and I’m grateful for them all. 

Hi Friends, This blog is an attempt to help you understand the poem. I hope you read and enjoy. To The Chinese Restaurant We come in here from the long afternoon stretched over the town’s sloping roofs, its greasy garages and ice-cream parlours, its melancholic second-hand bookshops with their many missing pages. Life’s not moving. We sit at a red table, among the dragons, near the curtained-off street-facing windows with their months’ old orangeade. Out in the streets there are schoolboys with their ties askew and the garish fruit-sellers. We eat more than we need to. We eat so that our boredom’s no longer dangerous, so that from the comfort of soup, with the minor pleasures of chopsuey, we can fend off the memory of cities unvisited, unknown and unknowable affairs, people with never-fading lipstick and confident gestures who we will never be. One day soon we’ll be running, our lives will be like the blur seen from a bus, and we won’t read each other’s letters thrice. But right there ...

Dr. Cheryl Antonette Dumenil cherylantonette.dumenil@gmail.com +919003388070                                                             PERSONAL STATEMENT As an accomplished educator with demonstrated ability to teach, motivate, and direct students, I can consistently maintain excellent relations with students, parents, faculty, and administrators. I am self-motivated with strong planning, organizational and leadership skills. EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of English - Holy Cross College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India. January 21 st , 2011, till present. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in English January 2021 St. Joseph’s College, (Autonomous) Tiru...