Shinie Antony is a writer based in Bangalore. Mainly a short-fiction writer - Barefoot and Pregnant and Seance on a Sunday Afternoon - she has compiled the anthologiesKerala, Kerala, Quite Contrary and Why We Don't Talk. While Kerala, Kerala, Quite Contrary has stories by Susan Visvanathan, Cardinal Vithayathil, Gauri Amma, Sara Joseph, Hormis Tharakan and Shreekumar Varma among others, Why We Don't Talk has a foreword by Shashi Deshpande and stories by Anita Nair, Chetan Bhagat, Jaishree Misra, Anjum Hassan, Jahnavi Barua, Usha KR and others.
Shinie Antony has written two novels: Kardamom Kisses (2005) and When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied (2011). She has also written a book for children, Goddy Tales, and contributed to anthologies Voices of Change - Extraordinary Life Stories (Plan India) and Beantown Boomtown (on Bangalore compiled by Jayanth Kodkani and Edwin Sudhir).
She has won the Asia region prize from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association for her story 'A dog's death' in 2003.
There is Punjab and there is Kerala, brought startlingly alive, and when Kedar weds Mangala, little does he bargain for whole cities and families to disdain each other. Pressured and soon celibate by compulsion, he turns to other pursuits, notably a second wife, while she copes with the results of hasty breeding. The children born to them travel into a future that alarmingly begins to resemble their roots and realize that in life magic is at a premium.
Sparkling wit savages societal snapshots as Shinie Antony takes the nice and the nasty to transform her debut novel into a merry carousel of touching moments. Here is a novel that clicks its tongue, asking the Great Indian Family to get moving.
Books edited by Shinie Antony
