Sessions
Messy Women: Writing Complex Female Characters
Kiran Manral*, Madhumita Bhattacharyya, Nisha Susan*, Jahnavi Barua with Gayatri Chandrasekharan
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Shamal Days
Sabin Iqbal with Nisha Susan*
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Bio
Nisha Susan is the author of The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories (Context, 2020). Her fiction often explores the intimacy and strangeness that the internet brought to India. Her translation of Meera KR’s novel Qabar from the Malayalam is forthcoming (2022, Westland). Her non-fiction is focused on culture, gender, digital media and politics. She is also the co-founder of two award-winning media companies, The Ladies Finger and Grist Media.