New Delhi, April 6 -- Writer, translator and cultural critic Shanta Gokhale, 85, has often returned to the complexities of gender, power and resistance in her writing in Marathi and English, portraying the tensions and nuances of women navigating patriarchal structures while seeking autonomy and agency. Gokhale says women have "a long way to go yet" because all women still don't have basic human rights. "We have the rights we have because militant women before us, aided by progressive men, have fought for them," she says.

Gokhale, who recently received a lifetime achievement award at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) Festival 2025, talks to Lounge about the complexity of women's rage and the ways in which different generat...