"In this dramatically powerful collection of real-life portraits of oppressed women and other deprived members of Indian society, Mahadevi Varma weaves her memoirs around other peoples' lives rather than her own. Her intimate and affectionate sketches of women, men and children she personally knew, reveal her compassion for the desperate plight of the disinherited poor in India, as well as her intense rage at those who exploit women and the dispossessed. ...
