6/24/2023 0 Comments Suniti namjoshi feminist fables![]() Her first book, Feminist Fables (1981), prised apart old fables and myths and turned them into sharp, jewel-like stories, which glinted with a wicked wit and mocked the absurdities of an unequal world. Namjoshi is a fabulist with a difference her brilliant, playful and subversive work is impossible to stuff inside a box of didacticism. ![]() It is a cloudy Bengaluru afternoon, and the UK-based writer is in the country on a private visit. Suniti Namjoshi is a fabulist with a difference her brilliant, playful and subversive work is impossible to stuff inside a box of didacticism.įABLES ARE the first stories many children hear - tales of talking animals that optimistically hope to make right and wrong appear as simple as the simplest aphorism.Ĭan they change the way children think? “Can stories change anything? I am not sure.” The voice of scepticism belongs to poet and rewriter of fables, Suniti Namjoshi. ![]()
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