There is only a handful of Indian writers who fully understand the characters they write. Anita Nair is one such author who becomes one with the women in her books and puts up a fierce and endless fight till the end for them to find a voice. Nair’s brilliance...
Anita Nair is probably India’s most popular and prolific writer. She spins stories with dazzling speed and intensity. Eating Wasps is vintage Nair, who excels in writing passionately and sensitively about women. Nair has spent her career using the veil of fiction to...
While it doesn’t follow an overtly feminist agenda, it captures the lives of women in a satisfying and beautiful way. You can hold it up and be happy that there is still literature out there that easily passes the Bechdel Test. And also know that it doesn’t exist just...
A writer who tells stories from both male and female perspectives, there can be no pigeon-holing her as a feminist writer. Nair has reiterated that women should be allowed to live their lives according to their will without any apology, without being made to feel...
‘Clear’, ‘concise’ and ‘insightful’ are perfect descriptors of Anita Nair’s latest novel, Eating Wasps. The book starts with 30-year-old Sreelakshmi’s suicide on a “Monday. A working day.” A Sahtiya Akademi winner, she is still considered damaged goods by the people...
Recent Comments