Participation in Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University Literary Festival, Bhubaneswar
Tag: gender
A Discerning Review of Ascendance
When men and women don’t need each other: A review of Sadhna Shanker’s Ascendance Gautham Shenoy June 30, 2019 https://factordaily.com/sadhna-shanker-ascendance-scifi-review/ On a distant planet called Elone, in the distant future, live two ‘species’ antagonistic to one another. Given their violent past – that began on their home planet, and continued even after this new planet was…
An insightful review…
Even by the end, you can’t guess how the two sides could resolve their differences, you know that you need to hold on tight and trust her imagination. Because the ending, when it comes, blows you away!
Bodhgaya Global Dialogue
She asked insightful questions on the impact of being Indian on the book and the underlying thread of violence. Made me think!
WoMEN – the fading gender binary…
As our landscape evolves, we will have to be accommodative, compassionate and inclusive, not because we are ‘women’, but because the future tide should not rise to the advantage of a select few like it did in the past.
Interesting interview
We are moving towards a huge change in human life. I don’t have doubts about it anymore. The future will arrive much faster than we want to accept or can foresee.
Participation in Jaipur Literary Festival 2019
An interesting and inspiring experience
Glimpses of Ascendance….
Great experiences, with different audiences and different milieus.
A good read
Ascendance relies more on philosophical evaluation rather than action-packed occasions. It has a whodunit factor that answered to the thirst for mystery.
A chat about Ascendance
When I started out I had nebulous ideas about immortality, gender dynamics and the potential of technology to transform our existence. We are moving towards a huge change in human life – I don’t have doubts about it anymore.
themindprism - sadhna shanker 