![]() ![]() Reaching across different strata of society, religion and language, this anthology creates a kaleidoscope of distinct and varied real-life stories. Walk with them as they report from Mumbai's streets alone at night, as they grapple with domestic violence, as they search for love through marriage brokers, as they learn to speak their minds, as they lay claim to their bodies, as they choose to be partnered or not, to become mothers or not, to make art, to make love, to make meaning of their lives. ![]() From the film sets of Bollywood to a closeted marital home in a Tamil Nadu village from the slick boardroom of an online dating app to a makeshift bamboo house in the post-cyclone Sundarbans from a beauty parlour where skin bleaching is the norm, to a home for abandoned girls in Karnataka, walk with them. Walk in the shoes of some of India's finest women writers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives in Walking Towards Ourselves. But behind the headlines, what is it really like to be a woman in India today? ![]() ![]() India is one of the most dangerous places on the planet to be a woman – or so the international press keeps telling us. ![]()
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