Susheela Raman - Sphinx

Sphinxes are creatures of the threshold, not only in Ancient Egypt but in Greece and in Asia. Crouched outside temples, they guard gateways between inner and outer. Human-headed and animal-bodied. Female here, male there. Alternately placid and wrathful, like Susheela’s character here as Sphinx, visiting the kind of midnight conversation with your conscience that can catch up with you anytime, anywhere. Kindly summarise your conundrum; everything we do and say and think matters so much while, in the cosmic scheme of things, just a little dust remains