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#ReadWomen: Free Hit by Suprita Das

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The Challenge of Change In 2018, in a first of sorts, a current Indian woman cricketer found  herself  in  a  TV studio  amidst  male  stalwarts  of  the game  while  a  Test  match  being  played  by  men’s  teams  was underway.  Smriti  Mandhana,  who  had  had  the  loveliest  of English summers, had

#ReadWomen: The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Two days ago, the sage handed me the tome he had been composing for decades. ‘It’s my life’s work,’ he said, and a strange look flashed across his face, one I wouldn’t have expected. It was part shyness and part desire  for  approbation.  But  why  should  the  great  Valmiki  want

#ReadWomen: The Music of Solitude by Krishna Sobti

Excerpted from Krishna Sobti’s The Music of Solitude, translated from the Hindi by Vasudha Dalmia, out now in a special Harper Perennial keepsake edition.   Aranya began to pull on her socks. Have your shoes been hurting you? No. The grass was wet and I needed to protect my shoes.

#ReadWomen: Walking in Clouds by Kavitha Yaga Buggana

After a light lunch of rice, chicken and omelettes, we begin our trek. Over the next six days we will follow the path of the Karnali and its tributaries, until we reach the Tibet border. This will end the first leg of our trek. Then we will drive to Lake

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    #ReadWomen: The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck bycAlexandra Reinwarth

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    Not giving a crap about your looks in general. Looks are a tricky issue. I remember a lightbulb moment when, as a teenager, I went shopping with my mother. All of a sudden, she stopped and looked at me completely flabbergasted – she had realised that on this lovely afternoon

    #ReadWomen: Nightmarch by Alpa Shah

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    Two nights into my stay at the guerrilla camp, I realised that Gyanji would be walking from Bihar, with a platoon, back to Lalgaon in Jharkhand where I had come from and where I had lived for the previous year and a half. There, in the surrounding forests, a similar