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Magical Women Paperback – April 25, 2019

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A weaver is initiated into the ancient art of bringing a universe into existence. Four goddesses engage in a cosmic brawl. A teenage shape-shifter learns to understand and control her unchannelled powers. A graphic designer duels with a dark secret involving a mysterious tattoo. A rebellious chudail makes a shocking announcement at a kitty party. A puppet seeking adventure discovers who she really is. A demon-hunter encounters an unlikely opponent. A young womans resolute choice leads her to haunt Death across millennia... A compelling collection of stories that speak of love, rage, rebellion, choices and chances, Magical Women brings together some of the strongest female voices in contemporary Indian writing. Combining astounding imagination with superlative craft, these tales will intrigue and delight readers in equal measure. Features stories by: * Asma Kazi * Kiran Manral * Krishna Udayasankar * Nikita Deshpande * Ruchika Roy * Samhita Arni * Sejal Mehta * Shreya Ila Anasuya * Shveta Thakrar * Shweta Taneja * Sujatha S.V. * Sukanya Venkatraghavan * Tashan Mehta * Trisha Das
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  1. Print length
    240 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Hachette India
  4. Publication date
    April 25, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    0.87 x 5.04 x 7.64 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9388322029
  7. ISBN-13
    978-9388322027
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  • Sahi
    4.0 out of 5 stars Magical and Magnificent
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019
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    This was such an unexpected read and I’m so delighted. I had completely forgotten that I preordered this book and when it suddenly showed up on my kindle, I couldn’t resist and had to begin immediately. I’m a huge fan of anthologies, and this was a wonderful opportunity to discover the most compelling female voices in contemporary Indian publishing. This a great collection of tales featuring badass women, who are fed up of being told what they should and shouldn’t do, and decide to take destiny into their own hands. There is also an underlying theme about the devastation being caused towards our Mother Earth across many stories and I loved this nod to Indian mythology where we worship Bhoomata. There are obviously both hits and misses like any anthologies, but I definitely ended the book feeling quite magical.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining & thought-provoking! There's something in the collection for everyone.
    Reviewed in India on June 26, 2019
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    Let's face it - most of the time, we read books to escape from reality, we hope to be entertained enough to forget the world around us for a while. Once in a while, you will find a book that does exactly that - it whisks you away into another world for a wild adventure, but when you return to reality, you find that you see things in a completely different way - kind of like a "never-ending story" :)

    So this book does exactly that. I read the stories in sequence the first time, and of course, I probably enjoyed some more than others, but they are all good, so I think its a matter of personal preference. I would recommend the book as a whole, rather than specific stories, since most of us would definitely enjoy over 80% of the book. In fact, I'm reading it again, this time dipping into stories at random based on my mood, and I like some of the stories even more the second time around.

    I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to language - simple is lovely, but ungrammatical/clunky/cliched is not. The stories thankfully are both well-written and well-edited, so its easy to get into the flow and not cringe at the writing :)

    Must read, whether you enjoy fantasy, writing by women/non-bindary individuals, feminist perspectives, or simply well-told, wonderful stories. There's something in this collection for everyone.
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  • Jason
    5.0 out of 5 stars 100% recommended
    Reviewed in India on May 4, 2019
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    This book is a collection of stories by different women in the genre of speculative/fantasy fiction.
    Really like the diversity in the style of writing and the variety of stories. Anthologies like this encourage more women to tell stories that dont fit in a box.
    I really enjoyed some of the stories. They had a unique imagination and distinct style.
    ALSO THE COVER BY ASMA KAZI makes this book a piece of art even if you don't read.
    BUY THE BOOK.
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    Jason
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    Reviewed in India on May 4, 2019
    This book is a collection of stories by different women in the genre of speculative/fantasy fiction.
    Really like the diversity in the style of writing and the variety of stories. Anthologies like this encourage more women to tell stories that dont fit in a box.
    I really enjoyed some of the stories. They had a unique imagination and distinct style.
    ALSO THE COVER BY ASMA KAZI makes this book a piece of art even if you don't read.
    BUY THE BOOK.
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  • AshTalksBooks
    3.0 out of 5 stars On the whole, it is a unique collection, although one must have the palate for such stories.
    Reviewed in India on May 26, 2020
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    I bought Magical Women by Hachette India on Kindle a few days back. It had been on my TBR for a long time. However, I hadn’t read up on what kind of a collection of stories the book would contain. People who like weird stories, horror, dystopia and sci-fi might enjoy this collection, which has been edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan. It was published in 2019.

    The editor’s note states, “Each story in this collection is unique in its representation of what it means to be magical.”

    It may not be everyone’s cup of tea. The book is well written, but some of the themes are a bit disturbing. The first story “ Gul” by Shreya Ila Anasuya has themes of lesbianism. The second story “ Gandaberunda” by S.V. Sujatha is violent and macabre. When I read the third story, ‘Rulebook for creating a universe’ by Tashan Mehta, I felt that although I was reading English, I was seeing Greek and Latin. It went totally above my head.

    I really enjoyed the fourth story ‘The demon hunter’s dilemma’ by Samhita Arni. It was almost like a fairy tale or mythological fiction with an underlying message of how some people don’t appreciate anything different from them and how true love overcomes all and changes your perspective.

    The fifth story ‘Earth and evolution walk into a bar’ by Sejal Mehta talks of the “rape of the natural world” and how humans have become monsters and the world has to be reset.

    The sixth story, ‘Tridevi Turbulence’ by Trisha Das is a conversation between Ganga, Parvati, Lakshmi, Saraswati and the male Gods dominating their lives; only it is set in the modern day.

    The seventh story ‘Stone cold’ by Kiran Manral is a kind of a sci-fi, dystopian tale with a lesbian theme. It was high on storytelling.

    The eighth story “The gatekeeper’s intern” by Ruchika Roy is about a protagonist who is clinically dead after a freak bolt of lightning struck her car. The story discusses people with positive and negative charges and how they came to be. The author’s version of how the band ‘The Doors’ was created is inserted as a tiny nugget. The story touches on the supernatural and the line between life and death.

    The ninth story ‘Grandma Garam’s kitty party’ by Ruchika Roy is about chudails who eat cats in kitty parties! One chudail is summoned by The Fetish Man who would like to tickle their feet. The chudail is struggling with her chudail legacy and wants to go “straight” and “work in an intellectual capacity, have a career, which doesn’t involve attracting men and scaring them witless and then unjuicing them”. She wants to be “normal”.

    The tenth story ‘ The carnival at the edge of the worlds’ by Shveta Thakrar is a highly descriptive story. It’s about a puppet, which plays Damayanti, ( of Nala and Damayanti fame) that comes to life( much like Pinocchio). The protagonist goes from a puppeteer pulling her strings to her pulling her own strings. She is faced with a challenge — of facing her identity. She comes to life and finds out that being alive means constant agony and that everything comes at a price. If one wishes to know oneself, one must be ready to endure pain.

    The tenth story ‘ The rakshasi’s rose garden’ by Sukanya Venkatraghavan is one about a rakshasi who was gang-raped. She finds out that “rage was her magic” and that “she was all women”. The secret behind her rose garden and missing memories is revealed at the end. This story reminded me of one of Neil D Silva’s stories that I read a few days back. (I don’t recall which one).

    In the twelfth story ‘Bahameen’ by Asma Kazi, the protagonist time-jumps through her temporal lobe. As she puts it, for a “time hopper, everywhere is home and nowhere is.”What caught my eye was the author sharing a recipe of ‘Nalli-nihari’ made of ingredients like “a pinch of existential angst to cancel all angst from Rastafariana”, “one heartbreak, your own”, among others. Although the bits about baby killers was macabre, I liked the time-hopping bits.

    The thirteenth story called ‘The girl who haunted death” by Nikita Deshpande was my favourite of the collection. It is about a woman’s relationship with Death (personified) after her husband passes away. It is the legend of Savitri retold.

    The fourteenth and final story in this collection was “Apocalyptica” by Krishna Udayasankar. It was a story of gods and mortals. I found there was too much shoptalk about security codes when the author was discussing Vidya, and I lost the thread of the story there. Later on in the story, Parvati addresses Lord Shiva and includes the story of Ganesha.

    On the whole, it is a unique collection, although one must have the palate for such stories.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must read!
    Reviewed in India on June 28, 2019
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    Books have always been magical but it’s rare for a book to make you feel like you have magic in your blood and power in your soul....this book did all of that and more! Such a beautiful entwining of magic mythology and some hard hitting facts packed into this soulful quirky enchanting collection of books that just seem to make sense ❤️❤️❤️ it’s an absolute must read!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
    Reviewed in India on June 16, 2019
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    Some of the characters in Magical Women are older than time. Then again, they aren’t. While Indian mythology has always had strong female characters, they were more often than not, shunned into the shadows of their male counterparts. Magical Women turns this on its head. Names like Savitri, Damyandhi, Ganga, Lakshmi and Parvathi pop up, but in a more contemporary setting. And, there lies its beauty. While epics have alienated readers, Magical Women has the power to draw fans across the board.

    There are 14 stories in this fantasy fiction anthology. And each and every one of them has a feminist female lead, and without the blatant male bashing. Stories have been beautifully woven around familiar themes of love, loss, sacrifice, but with a magical spin. A few stories touch up on the threat of rape and child rape with angry goddesses and even a rakshasi, taking matters into their own hands. The assault against our planet is also a common topic, and perhaps testimonial to the frustration experienced by those who are distraught by the destruction wreaked by our race. For someone like me, who’s a fan of this genre, I can’t tell you my delight to find familiar characters take centre stage than some god for Asgard. These are our ‘wonder women’, rooted deep in our culture, traditions and legends. It wouldn’t be fair to list out of favourites from this collection. So, I won’t. I wish some big studio picks Magical Women up and makes it into a series, so Indian writing, mythology and women writers get the international acclaim they so deserve!
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