Nadi, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Nadi

Nadi (Dr Manasee Palshikar) took a break from medical work to complete an MA in Gender, Culture and Development from Pune University as a mature full-time student. She has also learnt Screenwriting at the FTII, Pune. Nadi's novel Sutak received warm appreciation for its work with Gender, caste and family.

Fictional Arts·Literature

Remember Only the Bad Things

“My husband is travelling in business class,” she had said to the man sitting next to her. Sitting next to her means sitting very close to her, since this was Economy. What one politician had recently described as ‘cattle’ class. To drop

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Empowerment·Memoirs

Taking Back the Disdain I Used to Have for Audiobooks

I used to look down upon audiobooks. Then, one day, a swallow flew straight at my eye. While discussing literature and women, apart from the content of stories, the circuits of their telling and receiving are also important. The audiobook is one

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Mind & Body

Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything-Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories

For those who have read Elizabeth Strout’s earlier nine novels, reading Tell Me Everything feels like reconnecting with old friends. We know not just what happened in their lives but also what goes on inside their heads: their inner lives, yes, but

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Politics & Culture

Interference vs Watchfulness :The Film Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway

The film Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway (Directed by Ashima Chibber/2023) has elicited strong appreciation from audiences. This largely emotional response is due to empathy for the character, which is aided by the sometimes loud, but mostly moving performance of Rani Mukherjee.

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Politics & Culture

Booker Prize for the Indian Subcontinent

When located geographically, in strife and in conflict there is no peaceful past to remember, in the hope that memory will provide some solace in the traumatic present. Seeking distance from the current situation, trying to make sense of the

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Empowerment

The Memory of My Abortion

Ever since the shocking and regressive judgement was declared, we in India have been watching a new newsmaker in the western media. The Foetus. Pro-lifers have always wanted us to think of it as a ‘person’. As if that was not

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Empowerment

Who Was bell hooks?

Just in case, you woke up early on Thursday the 16th December 2021, read the news of the passing away of bell hooks, and had never heard of her, wondered who this woman of colour was, please do not feel

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Suggestions

Nadi

Remember Only the Bad Things

Taking Back the Disdain I Used to Have for Audiobooks

Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything-Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories

Interference vs Watchfulness :The Film Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway

Booker Prize for the Indian Subcontinent

The Memory of My Abortion

Who Was bell hooks?