Femme Fatale
The Morning Standard
|May 26, 2025
Shinie Antony, who recently discussed three of her books, opens up about 'bad women' and righteous anger
HINIE Antony, known for her novella The Girl Who Couldn't Love (Speaking Tiger), is a figure ubiquitous in India's literary circuits. Through lyrical and deft prose, her work epitomises a struggle between bitterness and bereavement; primarily through first-person narratives. Recently, the author discussed three of her books: Can't (Speaking Tiger), Eden Abandoned (Hachette India), and Hell Hath No Fury (Hachette India).
A perfunctory glance at Antony's Google page would reveal all three aforementioned books, along with ExObjects, an anthology Antony edited with AT Boyle, released in 2024. What might seem as a burst of prolific literary output, according to Antony, is incidental. She remarks, "That is purely accidental. The two anthologies—Hell Hath No Fury and ExObjects—were compiled with themes of revenge and grief respectively, and the writers were just terrific. The novella
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IIT-D hall named after Flipkart co-founder
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