List of contributors

1. Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women’s Poetry

Nishi Pulugurtha

2. Mapping Shrines of Memory – Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry

Huzaifa Pandit

3. Piro Prenam – A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition

Ayesha Ramzan

4. Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women’s Poetry from Barak Valley

Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul

5. Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of aThousand Mirrors

Aditi Upmanyu

6. "Fairy Tales" and "Crystal Palaces": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil’s ‘Kari’

Nishtha Dev

7. Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s　The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri　Tehsildar　(2009)

Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar

8. Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi’s Blasphemy

Uma Pal

9. Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao’s short stories

Rashmi Lee George

10. Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women’s Life-Writings in English

Roopa Philip

11. Centering the Woman Victim’s Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case Studies

Vihanga Perera

Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest

12. Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian Narratives

Elwin Susan John

13. Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital Art

Isha Yadav

14. Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian Cinema

Umar Nizaruddeen

15. The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women’s Narratives From the Diaspora

Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay

Part III: Lived experiences as protest

16. Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement.

Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni

17. The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, India

Wahida Parveez

18. Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma
19. Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar

Nabanita Sengupta is a translator, creative writer and academician. She teaches in an undergraduate college in Kolkata. Her recent published works include, Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement, Chambal Revisited and A Bengali Lady in England.

Samrita Sinha is Assistant Professor of English, Sophia College (Autonomous). Her Doctoral thesis is in the domain of Anglophone Women’s literature from the Northeastern Borderlands of India. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace Doctoral Grant for the year 2022-23.