FemAsia Magazine

Cooking Pizza at 7,300 Feet

It’s as though the elements sensed somethingthey seemed to collude in unisonto place obstacles in our way. Two days before we leavean uncertain future in our luggageas if it wanting us to staythe rain starts falling in sheetsthere are rumors

Three Loose Women

by Pamela A.Babusci

Three loose womencrossing the streetsheddinglayers of sinunder moonlight

The Good Wife – Notes on Being an Inconvenience

by Kanchan Balani

Hansal and I’ve been together for more than 12 years. We started dating in 2014. This number includes, and I feel the need to be

Jams Pickles and Womens Lib

by Alaknanda Sengupta

After having spent a few years in college as a young woman in the nineties, indulging in idiotic, inexplicable pursuits more outside than inside the

The Eid I Unfriended Myself

by Anam Sheikh

It’s a week before Eid, it is time for the annual Eid shopping, my parents, brother and I head out in our quest to

Who Is Looking?

by FemAsia Team

Power, Performance, and the Politics of Seeing Some gazes pierce more deeply than words might. And there are looks that heal what was broken.

My Adolescence Diary – Page 2

by Keshayinie Edmund

At that time, I was studying in Grade 9 at school. In our health textbook, there was a lesson about menstruation. But our health

Conversations with Hashu

by Savia Viegas

The train sped past the platform of Mahalaxmi station. Efa’s anxiety to alight from the moving train and breathe in the fresh open air

Six women in China to Remember As Moving Forward Beijing +30

by Gordana Malešević & Ming Li

The spirit of the age has shifted. The six portrayed women will probably not be mentioned in the Chinese party-state’s report in and celebrations

FICTIONAL ARTS

Blind Spot

by Vandana Parashar

As a child, I always wanted to be invisible. It seemed like such a fun thought. Now, after all these years… the blank stares,

Before saying I Do…

by Richa Walia

Before saying I do: Understand the responsibility beneath the vows Once, I was giving a lecture on the institution of marriage, and as a

Beyond Good Touch Bad Touch

by Navratra

The lesson’s familiar, yet incomplete,For safety’s sake, we must redefineThe boundaries of touch, the invasion of sightWhen eyes devour, and privacy takes flight Private

Of Resilience

by Gargi Guha

We grieve,we mourn,we love again.Offering the pliant vessel of our heartsInto another’s hands.Because, in loving,we are sheddingour past skinsAnd, the weightof weary expectationsSome…our own.

Daughter of the Soil

by Lopamudra Banerjee

[Dedicated to the phenomenal black poet and activist Nikki Giovanni from Virginia, USA, and to her poem ‘Lemonade Grows from Soil, too’, from her

FOOD & TRAVEL

A Tale of Three Wild Women in an Indian Jungle

by Gustasp and Jeroo Irani

Our safari in the Kiplingesque jungles of Satpura National Park/ Tiger Reserve in the heart of

Bandra Afternoon Egg Curry

by Alaknanda Sengupta

London. Paris. New York. Mumbai. Big cities. If you have grown up in small towns, they

Food and Friendship

by Gargi Guha

The warm evening in my Goa home is fanned ever so gently by the ceiling fan’s

Summer of Twenty Twelve- Destination UK

by Sheena Winny

On an A380 of double-decked pomp and splendour flew to destination UK. Heathrow was in sight,

Off to The Bazaar

by Kavita Ezekiel

(Episode four of my series “Once upon a Mountain Town”) Saturday was the day I most

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