From Saraswati To Draupadi: Depiction Of Powerful Women In Mythology
Ira Mukhoty and Kavita Kane shed light on their experience as feminist writers in mythology. And the conversation about women in mythology began
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Women and the Written Word: Highlights from Women Writers Fest
The journey to write a book starts with an inspiration. For some authors it’s a subject that propels them to write a book
Arundhathi Subramaniam On Finding Inspiration To Write When Confined Within Four Walls
The 48-year-old poet explained that the lockdown has allowed us to have self reclamation and connect with our inner being.
Writing Romance: How To Keep It Real In The Fiction World?
In a conversation that spanned from creating character arcs to the involvement of grief in love stories, the writers give an insight into the absorbing process of moulding a fictional world.
WWF 2021 Anuja Chauhan: Individual experiences are the only richest source of inspiration
Everybody’s personal experiences are their raw data. Things that happen to you in the first person are your most individual source, and the things that a writer hears or reads are secondary sources. – WWF 2021 Anuja Chauhan
Do hardships make us stronger? An Open Letter in the Lockdown of Hope.
Locked inside the house for more than a month now, it’s the birds, the trees, the changing seasons, and some persistent old memories that keep author, Anukrti Upadhyay, company. Is everyone experiencing the same gamut of feelings, she wonders, in this letter about the passage of time and life. In these days of isolation, I […]
If we think women are physically weak, Haley Shapley breaks the ‘rules’
We have to break down the gender norms that say sports are a male-only domain and girls are not capable of competing. In this interview Shapley tells you to look for the right signs.
Lady of the house
The orphan stepped into the house as a petite 14-year-old bride. From day one she kept her promise and tended to the upkeep of the house. She annually whitewashed it, plastered it with layers of cow dung slurry. She pasted the ceiling with old newspapers. daily she washed the courtyard and decorated it with muggu. […]
When fear strikes
She was fast asleep when she felt a hand on her mouth. She jerked awake to see her husband signaling for silence. The clock showed it was past 2:00 am. She turned in panic to the baby but he was fast asleep. Her husband gestured towards the door still signaling for silence. Her heart raced. […]
Herd
The families agreed. The bride would remain in her parental home until puberty. But the move to her married home kept getting postponed – she just didn’t want to stop studying. When she graduated, her husband finally asked her when she intended moving in with him. She is said to have flung the mangalsutra in […]
