Edited By Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, P. Lalitha Kumari, Ritu Menon & Gouri Salvi.

Pages: 312
Price: Rs.250

The 17 writers in this anthology are among the most widely acclaimed women writing in India today. They represent a true cross-section of society in terms of location, age, caste, community or religion, and genre and unfold a rich tapestry of experience and insight across languages and regions; gender and genre; caste and community. As each one speaks of her own work with rare candour and transparent sincerity, she also subtly illuminates the particular context in which she writes. This counterpointing of the personal and political, the private and public, and the literary and social makes for accounts that are, at once, most unusual, yet deeply moving.

Featured here are Nayantara Sahgal, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Dhiruben Patel, Sara Aboobacker, Bama, Mangala Godbole, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Volga, Pradnya Lokhande, Anamika, Sarup Dhruv, Jameela Nishat, Vasireddy Seeta Devi, Ilampirai, Shafeeq Fatima Shera, T. Sunandamma and Mridula Garg.

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