Sonali Pattnaik, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Sonali Pattnaik

Dr Sonali Pattnaik (PhD) is a feminist poet, educator, independent researcher and visual artist. She is the author of when the flowers begin to speak (Writers Workshop) and is the recipient of the Orange Flower Award for Poetry in English, 2022. She was formerly Assistant Professor (permanent) in English at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College and is currently associated with St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad., India.

Fictional Arts·Literature

How Dare They

how dare they tell her what she may be born, dead or un-free how dare they tell her not to whistle or how her mouth curls sexily as she speaks of freedom from their bottled notions of beauty how dare they tell

by Sonali Pattnaik

Politics & Culture

Gangubai Kathiawadi and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Grand Spectacle of Sex-Work

If films were only to be judged by the storyline that they trail then, Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest ‘spectacle drama’ would appear nothing short of heroic and avant-garde, even feminist. However, films, as students of literature are

by Sonali Pattnaik

Fictional Arts·Literature

I want

I want to walk my hands swinging long and free if these roads were not cobbled eyes but spun trees flowers would become fences or paths at my feet I want to suspend thought wear old jeans pull that thorn

by Sonali Pattnaik

Suggestions

Sonali Pattnaik

How Dare They

Gangubai Kathiawadi and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Grand Spectacle of Sex-Work

I want