Sonali Pattnaik, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Sonali Pattnaik

Dr. Sonali Pattnaik is an award-winning poet, academician, visual artist and author of ‘when the flowers begin to speak’ (Writers Workshop). An erstwhile professor and alumna of Delhi University she is widely published in in the area of visuality and gender. Her poetry has been published in international journals including The Radical Notion, The Hong Kong Review and Muse India and anthologised widely.

Fictional Arts·Literature·Poetry

At least we have poetry

nobody wants to hearabout the things we really want to sayor the things we should be saying.like every time I step outto go somewhere aloneI can think of nothing morethan my father once upon a living man hereor how we are living

by Sonali Pattnaik

Fictional Arts·Literature·Poetry

Women are Never Hungry

Women are never hungryyou see, through the artists eyesthey are but food, noodle-like,long, voluptuous or nubileand ham-med in,always sitting besideupon but never at the tablewomen are to be consumed. women are never hungryas through the system of servitudethey make and make food,stirring,

by Sonali Pattnaik

Fictional Arts·Literature·Poetry

She’s Missing

when she goes missing, we ought to be screaming our lungs blue and throats running parched but when we cry out the first thing we will be told is to go silent, a pillow placed upon our screech. a girl missing is

by Sonali Pattnaik

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

At least we have poetry

Women are Never Hungry

She’s Missing

How Dare They

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

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