The chapter analyses the novel Victory City (2023) by Salman Rushdie from the perspective of Robert Tally’s geocriticism and through a feminist lens. The palimpsestic story on the name of Jayaparajaya (“Victory and Defeat”) was originally written in Sanskrit by Pampa Kampana, “blind poet, miracle worker, and prophetess”, and translated “in plainer language” by Rushdie’s alter ego, a “spinner of yarns” (Rushdie 7). The story is mapped by real historical points, intricately woven with imaginary ones, in a sort of “thirdspace”, to use Edward Soja’s concept (1996), interspersed with allusions to present-day neoliberal spaces (India, the United States). The gender dimension is also explored, from the foundation of the city through the whispers of a woman empowered by a goddess on the scorched place of a collective sutee, to the mapping of profoundly gendered experiences, such as rape, pregnancy and mothering.