![]() ![]() Since then, more of her work-a memoir of her time with her late cat Suki, a revisiting of Aesop’s legacy in Foxy Aesop-has appeared in India, as have some of her writings for children. There’s no room for just outrage in her writing, though Namjoshi is nothing if not a profoundly political writer. In 2013, Zubaan published The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader, which gave readers a taste of her spiky genius, wicked sense of humour and refusal to play by the book. It’s a pity that they aren’t as widely read, enjoyed and celebrated as they deserve to be.Īlso read: How Dante’s Vita Nova inspired an art exhibition ![]() Over the last four decades, her books for adults and children have continuously pushed the boundaries of the real and the imagined. ![]() They inhabit a morally dubious, if exciting, universe, where conventional beliefs about life and art, gender and sexuality, right and wrong, turn topsy-turvy.īorn in 1941, UK-based Namjoshi embraces these contradictions in her writing with an elan that’s hard to rival. The best fabulists are masters of the art of fibbing. But it could equally mean a liar, a compulsive teller of tales. The word, deriving from the Latin fabula (“story”), refers to a storyteller. Few contemporary writers own the epithet of a “fabulist” with as much sass as 81-year-old Suniti Namjoshi. ![]()
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