Essays, fiction, and reviews — some academic, some personal.
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Follow on SubstackAbsence as presence in Partition narratives, and the feminist historians — Butalia, Sarkar, Kumar — restoring women's experiences to the record.
How semi-literate suburban women in post-independence India asserted their identities outside dominant historical narratives.
On family stories, the women who shaped me, and why personal inquiry and scholarly method are not so different.
Why Indian school curricula still fail women's histories, and a case for reform from the classroom up.
1940s Calcutta. A young woman translates English novels into Bengali and begins to rewrite the endings.