Shanta Gokhale on how the idea of translating this memoir came to her some 35 years ago and what sets Lakshmi Bai Tilak apart from other authors of her time.

An excerpt from the chapter ‘When a Devi Ma Becomes a Woman’ from Ratno Dholi.

Scholar and translator Arshia Sattar speaks on why she feels fortunate to have the opportunity to look at her past work with the new eyes and ears and hearts.

Literary art is diverse and multilingual even within our country. With millions of texts depicting scores of lives regionally, it is difficult for these texts to be read widely if it is not written in a popular language like Hindi or English. For that, there is a small community of authors who take it upon […]