Nautanki Saala and Other Stories
(By Mohua Chinappa)
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not worry about others* opinion…. She smiled at me and asked out of
the blue, if my cat speaks to me? When I said no, she seemed angry.
I felt sorry that I didn't, I wished I had one, just for her sake.
A former communications and brand consultant, Mohua Chinappa has
met women from diverse backgrounds, from a tribal Khasi woman who
ran a tea stall to a journalist from the Northeast trying to fit in the big
city to an unassuming college girl who could not anticipate the
'consequence' of her brutish rebuke to a man
So, in Nautanki Saala and Other Stories, an average bar dancer gives an
old fart, the finger he deserves, many protagonists believe they are not
enough. As a result, the protagonists in this book do these and more:
They deny their feelings
They deny their desires
They make poor decisions
Most of the stories in the author's debut book are based on the women
and men she met in a span of two decades, from the early 80s to the
2000s. While the lives of the people are a testament to the
cultural -economic shift in these decades, they are also an attempt to
strengthen the feminist who hesitates in confiding.”
