“Women-supporting-women is a major theme in my work.”- Sahana Ahmed (Indian Author & Poet)

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian author & poet Sahana Ahmed as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.

For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.

Today, we are featuring Indian poet and author Sahana Ahmed based in Gurugram, India. She is the author of ‘Combat Skirts’ (Juggernaut, 2018) and the editor of ‘Amity: peace poems’ (Hawakal, 2022). Her work has been published, most recently, in The Times of India, Madras Courier and LiveWire, along with numerous anthologies.

As the India Country Chair for the World Peace Wing of G100, she received the ‘Woman of the Decade’ award at the annual Women Economic Forum 2022. For more information, please visit her website: www.sahanaahmed.com