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Why should a writer’s gender matter?
It is high time editors and publishers freed anthologies of the self-limiting traps imposed by a peg or focus for a collection; it is only then that we will see women’s writings in all their splendid diversity
Rakhshanda Jalil
Published
in 1895, Saguna
is said to be the first autobiographical novel in English written by
an Indian woman; its author was Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894),
the daughter of a first-generation Christian convert from Ahmednagar.
She wrote about her life as a ‘native Christian’ and her
pioneering journey in search of an education.
Mirroring disparate lives
Reviewed by Aradhika Sharma
The Selector of Souls
by Shauna Singh Baldwin.
Random House, Canada. Pages 560
Women! Women’s
issues; women’s bodies; women’s emotions; women bonding together;
women at war; women’s babies, sexual inequalities and the pressures
on women to not give birth to their own gender. In her book, Shauna
Singh Baldwin tells of women’s lives and stories that are strangely
intertwined.
Battle
fuelled by greed
Reviewed by Nirbhai Singh
Making Peace with the Earth
(Beyond Resources, Land and Food Wars)
By Vandana Shiva.
Women
Unlimited. Pages vii+267. Rs 375
vandana
Shiva, internally renowned authority and activist on environment,
boldly condemns corporate profiteering enterprise that is polluting,
degrading and ultimately destroying fertility of the earth. Recent
wars in the world have harmed the natural resources like; water, soil,
forests, minerals, seeds etc. The present work, rigorously documented
exposition, demolishes the myth of globalisation; mad race of
corporate profiteering aims at material gains for grabbing temporal
power. She puts forth cogent arguments with authentic references.
All-time Favourites with women
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