Nileena Sunil is a writer based in Bangalore. A postgraduate in English Literature and Communications, she works as an instructional designer for a tech company, and writes fiction in her spare time. She has had short stories published in Borderless Journal, Tales from an Unfamiliar Nation, and the anthologies The Collapsar Directive and Flash Fiction Addiction. Sunil has attended the Bound India Virtual Writer’s Retreat and runs a book blog ‘The Book Window’. You can find her on Instagram: @nileena_sunil.
Two recent travel books by Indian women—Taran N. Khan’s Shadow City and Pallavi Aiyar’s Orienting—bring a unique, gendered perspective to the social and cultural complexities of expat life in Afghanistan and Japan. By Nileena Sunil