Desi Feminist Literature
Books by Desi women that I read, liked, and have feminist elements to them (in no particular order). I’ll add to the list as I read more books.
- Neela: Victory Song by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
- You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
- Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins
- The Good Talk by Mira Jacob
- White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
- Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
- Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
- Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Pashmina By Nidhi Chanani
- Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkataraman
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
- Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
- The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani
- The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
- Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Amjed Qamar
- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
- Aruna’s Journeys by Jyostna Sreenivasan
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
- Sita’s Ramayana by Samhita Arni
- Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
- The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan