Mar 23 2024 to Mar 23 2024 6 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Are they the bad girls of mythology or just plain misunderstood? Seductive, bold, trailing in their wake doom and destruction, these were the early rebels of the epics. In these latest books The Forgotten Wife: The Story of Hidimbi and Bheem by Madahavi Mahadevan, Jezebel by KR Meera, and Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith by Shinie Antony, feminism is able to trace its history and origins back to when perhaps women with ambition were dismissed as demonesses.

The three authors will discuss legend and lore with poet Mani Rao. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Speakers

Shinie Antony Writer & Editor

Shinie Antony is a writer and editor based in Bengaluru. Her novels include Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, Can’t and The Girl Who Couldn’t Love. Her anthologies include Boo, Why We Don’t Talk and An Unsuitable Woman. She is the founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival. Her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.

Madhavi Mahadevan Writer

Madhavi Mahadevan has published two collections of short stories and three novels which are feminist retellings based on the Mahabharata. The Kaunteyas, Queen Kunti’s Mahabharata; Bride Of the Forest, The Untold Story of Yayati’s Daughter and The Forgotten Wife, The Story of Hidimbi and Bheem. She is also an award winning author of children’s books. K R Meera Writer & Journalist K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of more than a dozen books in Malayalam including novels, novellas, short-story collections, essays and children’s literature. Her novel Aaraachaar, which won the Kendra and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards, was translated by J. Devika as Hangwoman and was shortlisted for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her other translated works include Qabar, Jezebel, Yellow Is The Colour of Longing, The Gospel of Yudas, The Poison of Love, The Unseeing Idol of Light and The Angel’s Beauty Spots.

Mani Rao Poet

Mani Rao is the author of Bhagavad Gita: God’s Song (HarperCollins 2023), Saundarya Lahari (HarperCollins 2022), Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity and Visionary Experience Today (Cham Springer 2019) and Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader (2014). She has twelve books of poetry, including New & Selected Poems (Poetrywala Mumbai). See www.manirao.com for more information.