Nisha Susan’s stories show how love, sex and dhoka (and some work) play out in the social media age
You expect Nisha Susan’s collection of short stories to dazzle you and even throw you a little off balance right from the opening story, not only because of her past record and continued presence as a sensitive journalist and activist, and incisive social commentator, but also because the cover of her debut collection of short stories, The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories, offers a tantalising glimpse of the swank and swagger of the women inside.
On the day of the book launch, the author posted an animated image of the illustrated book cover featuring a woman winking and whistling, before settling for a self-satisfying hmm, even as the Hindu trinity and a whole heap of temples trembled on a giant headdress set smugly on her head, zero discomfort betraying her wide-eyed expression.
On opening the book, you discover that the collection thrums with the same raw energy and calm confidence that you see on the cover. In these stories, set largely in urban Bangalore and small towns in Kerala, urban youth navigate real-life and virtual worlds of relationships, work, fun, commitment, and social responsibility with the kind of millennial confidence that is often a cause of irritation, disbelief, and even bitter rejection from...
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