September 22, 2025
Cassandra
Cassandra: The Last Female Ambassador of Afghanistan in Austria
“If we can’t speak, why live?” said Shabana.* It was midweek, late afternoon. I hurried to the...
Mandakini Pachauri
6 works
Mandakini Pachauri is an India born poet and nonfiction writer living at the edge of the Viennese Woods. Presently, she interrogates the contradictions and rifts in her personal history within geopolitical regions. Sound, image, codes and languages are expressive modes of her movements in the body, mind and in writing. In a state of whiplash, entangled perhaps in broken and remembered structures – she reaches not just for terra firma but also to imagine emergent realities.
January 15, 2025
Cassandra
Cassandra: Kinship Beyond Borders
As I leafed through Kin, an anthology of poetry, prose, and art by women from Romani,...
October 15, 2024
Cassandra
Cassandra: Framing Truth
France’s Reckoning with Sexual Domination in Images and Words The case of Gisèle Pelicot, who courageously...
September 15, 2024
Cassandra
Cassandra: Marge Piercy And Woman On The Edge Of Time
Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time remains a seminal work in feminist science fiction, offering not...
August 15, 2024
Cassandra
Cassandra: Malika Amar Shaikh
On Reading Malika Amar Shaikh’s I Want to Destroy Myself, translated from Marathi by Jerry Pinto...
June 15, 2023
Non-Fiction
Mahsa Amini: The Disruptive Power Of Hair
What feminine part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this...