![]() ![]() ![]() She has also is the author of the timeless classic Blue and Other Stories. Suniti Namjoshis short novel is The Conversations of Cow in which she illustrates and explores the positions of lesbians on the margins of the contemporary heterosexual order. She loves kulfi and hard rock of the candy kind, and is an obliging photographer. She spends time in the garden, watching birds, walking, observing, and grappling creatively with the computer. Suniti lives in Devon, U.K., designated an area of “outstanding natural beauty”, a home she loves. The tone here is much gentler, but the questioning imagination which constantly surprises, so characteristic of her work for adults, is also found here. Set in different parts of the world, the Aditi books can justifiably be termed the first truly ‘Indian’ series for children with an appeal that relates to children everywhere, with Chinese rights sold. The Fabulous Feminist brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, Feminist Fables, and including excerpts from Saint Suniti and the Dragon, Mothers of Maya Dip, From the Bedside Book of Nightmares, and her series of 'Aditi' books for children, such as Aditi and the Thames Dragon. ![]() In the past few years she has been writing prolifically for children – the Aditi Adventures series, of which twelve have been published. ![]() Her books, published in India, Canada, Britain, the U.S., Europe and Australia, include the path-breaking Feminist Fables and Sycorax: New Fables and Poems. Suniti Namjoshi is a fabulist and poet whose work is characterised by wit, irony, lyricism and pithy satire. ![]()
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