https://sarojinisahoo.com/An independent editorial resource on feminist literature and the work of South-Asian women writers: author profiles, book analyses, theory, reading lists, and notes on prizes and translation. https://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/women-in-translation-why-it-mattershttps://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/women-in-translation-why-it-mattersWed, 24 Jun 2026 08:24:03 -0000Why so few books by women are translated into English, what the Women in Translation movement and prizes such as the International Booker have changed, and what is at stake for South-Asian women writers. https://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/open-submissions-feminist-gothichttps://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/open-submissions-feminist-gothicWed, 24 Jun 2026 08:24:03 -0000A new open-call horror initiative is a reminder that discovery is itself a literary form. We read it against the long tradition of women, including South-Asian women, who used the gothic to write what realism would not hold. https://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/ismat-chughtai-urdu-feminist-traditionhttps://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/ismat-chughtai-urdu-feminist-traditionWed, 24 Jun 2026 08:24:03 -0000A profile of the Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai, whose fiction and the 1944 obscenity trial over Lihaaf placed women https://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/god-of-small-things-close-readinghttps://sarojinisahoo.com/posts/god-of-small-things-close-readingWed, 24 Jun 2026 08:24:03 -0000A close reading of Arundhati Roy