Speaking at the Women Writers’ Fest in Ahmedabad, Devdutt Pattanaik explored the topic of the gendered gaze in mythology in an engaging talk. Pattanaik wowed the audience into silence and forced them to contemplate differing ways to look at patriarchy, how the male body is considered purer than the female and how most religions have different […]

Reading has always been a big part of author Anuja Chandramouli’s life. She remembers that as kids when she and her friends used to play a game where they would fantasize about who they would like to be stuck with on a deserted island, her answer was usually books, all the ones that could be […]

P Lalitha Kumari aka Volga, the author of the ground-breaking The Liberation of Sita, speaks to Shethepeople.TV about her book and the relevance of mythology in present day.

Women in India’s epics have an enhanced sense of being feminist