When
Bihar-born assistant professor cum author Mallika Nawal, 31, started
working on the first instalment of 'I m a Woman' thriller trilogy and
her debut fiction " I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE ' in September 2012,
nobody was talking about women's issue then. But, suddenly, Nirbhaya
gang rape case occurred on December 16 the same year and the issue of
women's safety jolted the entire nation, giving her proper background to
present her fiery book on sexual harassment of women to readers.
Dedicated to Nirbhaya and released on the anniversary of Nirbhaya gang rape on December 16, 2013, it drew overwhelming response from the readers, Nawal told TOI. Based on the life of a fictional character Maya, who becomes a victim of sexual harassment at workplace and when she files a complaint against her senior, she is sacked from her job, the thriller unravels her struggle as she fights a legal battle to get her boss punished and get her job back in a dignified manner.
In her fiction, Nawal unveils how the legal process affects the psychology of the victim. When asked being an assistant professor of management studies how she got influenced towards writing a legal thriller, she says the legal thrillers of Geoffrey Archer and her plan to pursue law as a profession enticed her and she wrote the book. "Even though 'I m a Woman & I m on SALE' was more research-intensive, I finished writing the 216-page literary fiction in just a couple of months. In fact, I don't think I was writing the story, the story pretty much wrote itself," she said.
The author of three management books, who is pursuing PhD at IIT Kharagpur, Mallika is grateful to a senior counsel at Supreme Court Jayant Das, who briefed her on the nuances of law, and also to the National Commission for Women, the body which let her delve deep into various cases they came across. About other two installments of her trilogy, she says her second book has the title 'I m a Woman & I m a Nemesis', which deals with the heroin which will make others pay as "I don't want my heroines to be damsels in distress and will deal with darker side of a woman." The third book is titled 'I m a Woman & I m a Phoenix', which deals with how the heroin, after facing all odds, flies high.
Asked about her future plans, the alumna of city's Notre Dame Academy and Patna Women's College, she says lots of research and studies are on cards and after submitting her PhD thesis, she will travel across the globe for research. Also, she is likely to collaborate for research on 'Emotions and the Service Industry' with Saqib Ilyas from Pakistan, a PhD scholar in France. She is presently associated with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, and had earlier taught at S P Jain School of Global Management, Dubai.
Granddaughter of a former IAS officer, Nawal Kishore Jha, from whom she says she inherited the skills to write, the Patliputra resident says marriage will not be on her cards until she finds an appropriate feminist of opposite gender. source:TOI
Dedicated to Nirbhaya and released on the anniversary of Nirbhaya gang rape on December 16, 2013, it drew overwhelming response from the readers, Nawal told TOI. Based on the life of a fictional character Maya, who becomes a victim of sexual harassment at workplace and when she files a complaint against her senior, she is sacked from her job, the thriller unravels her struggle as she fights a legal battle to get her boss punished and get her job back in a dignified manner.
In her fiction, Nawal unveils how the legal process affects the psychology of the victim. When asked being an assistant professor of management studies how she got influenced towards writing a legal thriller, she says the legal thrillers of Geoffrey Archer and her plan to pursue law as a profession enticed her and she wrote the book. "Even though 'I m a Woman & I m on SALE' was more research-intensive, I finished writing the 216-page literary fiction in just a couple of months. In fact, I don't think I was writing the story, the story pretty much wrote itself," she said.
The author of three management books, who is pursuing PhD at IIT Kharagpur, Mallika is grateful to a senior counsel at Supreme Court Jayant Das, who briefed her on the nuances of law, and also to the National Commission for Women, the body which let her delve deep into various cases they came across. About other two installments of her trilogy, she says her second book has the title 'I m a Woman & I m a Nemesis', which deals with the heroin which will make others pay as "I don't want my heroines to be damsels in distress and will deal with darker side of a woman." The third book is titled 'I m a Woman & I m a Phoenix', which deals with how the heroin, after facing all odds, flies high.
Asked about her future plans, the alumna of city's Notre Dame Academy and Patna Women's College, she says lots of research and studies are on cards and after submitting her PhD thesis, she will travel across the globe for research. Also, she is likely to collaborate for research on 'Emotions and the Service Industry' with Saqib Ilyas from Pakistan, a PhD scholar in France. She is presently associated with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, and had earlier taught at S P Jain School of Global Management, Dubai.
Granddaughter of a former IAS officer, Nawal Kishore Jha, from whom she says she inherited the skills to write, the Patliputra resident says marriage will not be on her cards until she finds an appropriate feminist of opposite gender. source:TOI
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