In these beautifully composed and entertaining works, she ingeniously reworks fairytales, Greek and Sanskrit mythology, literary monsters such as Grendel's mother, and icons such as Saint Sebastian, and stitches the ideas together with her vivid imagination and wisdom. Here readers will find her fables, poetry, prose, autobiography, and children's stories, works that are both playful and deeply serious. Suniti and the Dragon", "The Mothers of Maya Dip", "From the Bedside Book of Nightmares", and her series of Aditi books for children, such as "Aditi and the Thames Dragon". The "Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "St. Born in Mumbai in 1941, Suniti Namjoshi is an important figure in contemporary Indian literature in English, a writer whose deep engagement with issues of gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity, and human rights infuses everything she writes.
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