Jasvinder Sanghera escaped a forced marriage and was disowned by her family. Her charity now works for victims of honour-based abuse and has helped introduce a new law in UK.
An interview with Ishita Jain and Naomi Kundu, authors of the new children’s book ‘The Girl Who Went to the Stars and Other Extraordinary Lives’.
With her new book that profiles 15 young women from varied backgrounds, Varsha Adusumilli is out to create new female icons for girls around India.
Madhu Tandan’s new novel is no ordinary love story; it’s a canvas of absence, abstinence and infidelity along with a thrilling plot.
“Our traumatic experiences shape us the most,” says Shuchi Singh Kalra. The best-selling author shares her views on gender bias and social taboos.
Multidisciplinary artist and author Aanchal Malhotra has been studying the personal histories of the refugees of the Partition through the belongings they carried with them.
Sreemoyee Piu Kundu on the social stigma of single or divorced in India and why single women live in fear.
Jojo Moyes’ new novel ‘Still Me’, ‘The Only Story’ by Julian Barnes and ‘Eleven Ways to Love’ should be on your must-read list this month.
She sparked off a global debate on race and parenting, sold millions of copies and made ‘tiger mom’ a household term. And now Yale law professor Amy Chua is out with her new theory on political tribes.
A fateful fire led Laxmana Dalmia, daughter of a poetess and India’s pioneering industrialist, to switch careers and venture into spirituality.
Veena Nagpal chose an unlikely topic for her latest novel – nuclear destruction and a water crisis.
The author of ‘Letters to my Ex’ on love and romance in the new-age.
Political author, academic and artist Kota Neelima set out to express the woman’s voice in her books – from media and politics to farmer suicides – and found it harder than expected.
It isn’t just the entertaining plots and lighthearted optimism of her books. What makes Anuja Chauhan an icon is her refusal to fit in. Lead photo by Rohit Chawla.
From running a successful book-delivery service to writing about India’s wealthiest Sindhi families, there has never been a dull moment for Maya Bathija.
For author and columnist Kiran Manral, writing has been a process of self-discovery, and, like her books, she is peeling away layers of social conditioning as she goes along.
Ashtar Tashi was drawn to meditation and mysticism after a long career in fashion, and believes joy is the only true path.
Acclaimed chef, restaurateur, author, TV personality and painter, Zarmig Haladjian is a woman of many accomplishments.
One of the few women authors from India to write erotic novels, Shradha Singh holds pragmatic opinions about extramarital sex, and says monogamy does not exist.
The author of ‘Yama’s Lieutenant and the Stone Witch’ talks about mythology, women and writing dark fiction.
