The lilting rhythms of Punjabi folk songs, the Siapewalli, and Naani wailing about her bad kismet caused by the chudail and dain. Partition changed the old traditions of Punjabiyat but in the pages of this book they come alive..
The invisible cost of the Partition of the Punjab in 1947 - besides the violence, loss of life and property - was that it destroyed the psychic equilibrium of the displaced population. This is the story of one such woman, Shakunt, who ...
This book focuses on the pioneering women's rights crusader, and leader of the crafts movement, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya. The author succeeds in placing Kamaladevi's life in the historical context of the nationalist movement, while simultaneously bringing out her personality. Kamaladevi's varied and colourful life was a struggle against tradition: married at eleven, she was widowed soon after, but she refused to live the life of a widow. She went on to marry ...