Cassandra is a series of reflections on international women writers and activists whose works have proven prophetic, insightful, and courageous enough to transcend borders and remain relevant across time and cultures.
Poems that witness, accuse, mourn, and resist. Work rooted in body autonomy, ecofeminism, desire, grief, exile, and decolonial reclamation - from Adivasi verse to Urdu ghazal to prison writing.
Browse by issue, by theme, or by mood - and expect to be changed by what you find.
Cassandra
Mandakini Pachauri
September 22, 2025
7 min read “If we can’t speak, why live?” said Shabana.* It was midweek, late afternoon. I hurried to the......
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Mandakini Pachauri
January 15, 2025
4 min read As I leafed through Kin, an anthology of poetry, prose, and art by women from Romani,......
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Mandakini Pachauri
October 15, 2024
4 min read France’s Reckoning with Sexual Domination in Images and Words The case of Gisèle Pelicot, who courageously......
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Mandakini Pachauri
September 15, 2024
7 min read Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time remains a seminal work in feminist science fiction, offering not......
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Mandakini Pachauri
August 15, 2024
10 min read On Reading Malika Amar Shaikh’s I Want to Destroy Myself, translated from Marathi by Jerry Pinto......
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