{"title":"Publisher — Women Unlimited","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-princesss-pilgrimage","title":"A Princess's Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1870, Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South-Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. Reproduced here, A Princess's Pilgrimage to Mecca is the original English translation by the wife of British colonial officer of an unpublished Urdu manuscript. It is accompanied by a critical Introduction and Afterword that make this offering a comprehensive resource on travel writing by South-Asian Muslim women, and encourage the reader- whether scholar, student or enthusiast - to rethink established understandings relating to travel writing colonialism and world history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073028501539,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51msgD7S73L._SX297_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1590320925"},{"product_id":"golda-slept-here","title":"Golda Slept Here","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolitics enters the lives of every family in Palestine. In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of some Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the migr Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\n \u003cp\u003eAmiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between official histories and private memories. Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073029910563,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51X2YmKMtVL._SX328_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1590320982"},{"product_id":"the-salt-doll","title":"The Salt Doll","description":"\u003cp\u003eMira Cheriyan is both actor and witness in The Salt Doll. When she is part of the action, she is the salt doll which dissolves in the sea and loses identity. This, according to Mira, is the feminine way of experiencing. When she witnesses and reports, she is like quicksilver; she touches everything while remaining untouched. Alternating between these two modes, Mira tells a dazzling, savage, sophisticated tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMira’s life with Nanjundan is presented in vivid segments. The scenes, rich and powerful in themselves, are part of the central theme of separation of husband from wife, parent from child, one race from the next. It is a theme, at once violent and instinctual, and Daniels Ramanujan has a found a style richly adequate to its telling. In its rapid kaleidoscope of characters and scenes, its prodigality of language, and above all, in its energy and compassion, The Salt Doll presents readers with a Whitmanesque celebration of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073032761379,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/42274796._SY475.jpg?v=1590321110"},{"product_id":"borders-and-boundaries-women-in-indias-partition","title":"Borders And Boundaries: Women In India's Partition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1947 India was simultaneously freed and divided. Partition affected everyone in one way or another, but it had a particular impact on women as they struggled to put their lives back together again. How did they find their place in this land of redrawn boundaries? What was nation to them? Religion? Community? Freedom itself? Through the stories of women and an accompanying narrative that locates them in a social and political context we get another view, from the margins as it were of that momentous time, and look anew not only at how history gets written but at those age-old boundaries of religion, community, gender and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073063333923,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/41Z2321TJ0L._SX304_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1589827985"},{"product_id":"kabul-blogs-my-days-in-the-life-of-afghanistan","title":"Kabul Blogs: My Days In The Life Of Afghanistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eInterleaving the political, the recent historical, and the quotidian reality, set against a breathtakingly beautiful landscape, the author tells a warm and intimate story about a country and a people, whose twinned lives demonstrate a daily defiance of doomsday predictions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073070837795,"sku":"","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/511VNQyH0uL._SX315_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1590322254"},{"product_id":"ship-of-sorrows-a-novel","title":"Ship Of Sorrows: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Ships of Sorrows is a group of young friends, men and women, Hindu \u0026amp; Muslim, living in Lucknow on the cusp of Indian Independence. Like the rest of the country, their lives are in turmoil. As the certanities of an old order begin fraying and the prospect of division become inevitable, they are confronted with having to make the kind of decisions that their hitherto carefree, privileged lives had not required. The author places the six friends in situations that reflect the changing context and reveal their complex relationships with each other and with their altered reality. As the partition of the country looms, and their sepration from eachother and from their known worlds become imminent, their known worlds becomes imminent, their cargo of sorrows gets heavier. Yet, the ship of sorrows is not a angle of sounds, images and emotions, Hyder navigates it to a harbor that promises hope and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073088827427,"sku":"","price":550.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51qgRn73E3L._SX326_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1590322861"},{"product_id":"deliverance-a-novella","title":"Deliverance: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeliverance, first published in Marathi as Nirgathi, is a strikingly unusual novel, a powerful story about the turbulent relationships within a family that chafes at being bound together by intensely close ties. A novel about mothers and daughters, and about motherhood, told with painful and disturbing honesty. Mimi and Shami are half-sisters who share a mother (the narrator) and a conflicted relationship with her second husband. As the story progresses, all four go through rites of passage that leave them emotionally scarred, yet more closely bound to each other than ever before. Mimi and Shami grow up, grow away from their parents, find fulfilment in alien environments. The narrator and her husband realign their lives, physically and emotionally, in an all-too-familiar, poignant response. The novel s shocking but inevitable denouement confronts one of the fundamental truths of all human bonds, even as it brings deliverance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32073102622755,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51dBcjDUtpL._SX320_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1589978750"},{"product_id":"fireflies-in-the-mist","title":"Fireflies In The Mist","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe song of the boatman on the Padma, a green haze of rice fields turning to gold in the light of the setting sun, the romance of Bengal caught and held in the silvery net of a fisherman. Ambitious, subtle and intricately structured, Fireflies in the Mist—Hyder’s transcreation of her Urdu novel Akhir-e-Shab ke Humsafar—spans nearly four decades of East Bengal’s history, from the dawn of nationalism in the 1930s to the restless aftermath of the bloody struggle for an independent Bangladesh. At the centre of the novel is Deepali Sarkar, a young Hindu attracted to the extreme left wing of the nationalist movement, and Rehan Ahmed, a Muslim radical of Marxist inclinations who introduces her to the life of the rural deprived. Their common political engagement draws them into a quietly doomed love affair. Through their relationship, Hyder explores the growth of tension between Bengal’s Hindus and Muslims—who had once shared a culture and a history—as they try to come to terms with Bengal’s and India’s shifting fortunes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32320676724771,"sku":"","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/41DuRXbtkjL._SX321_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1596699618"},{"product_id":"lifescapes-interviews-with-contemporary-women-writers-from-tamil-nadu","title":"Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique anthology presents the experiences and views of seventeen contemporary Tamil women writers whose works explore the implications of being female in Tamil Nadu today, in serious and playful ways. Challenging the rigid, polarising binaries of the 'inner feminine, or aham, and the 'outer masculine, or puram, prevalent in classical Sangam literature, the writers in this volume draw attention to the inseparability of issues like gender, body politics, caste hegemony, mythopoesis and environmental justice, in their writing. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32320676790307,"sku":"","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51pJAtpe3IL._SX332_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1596699625"},{"product_id":"side-effects-of-living","title":"Side Effects Of Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are different sizes of bodies. There are different shades of the mind. There are different states of mind in distress. Side Effects of Living presents the words and verses of survivors, writers, poets and artists, who are struggling with a mental condition or have watched their loved ones suffer. Through first-person life experiences and moving poetry, they attempt to destigmatise mental health issues, as they describe what happens when the mind gives in—or gives up. Why does it happen, and can we do anything about it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRefreshingly honest, always uplifting, this collection urges us to reject the shame and blame that often accompanies mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32320676823075,"sku":"","price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51xuVcc9CHL._SX323_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1596699628"},{"product_id":"vermillion-clouds-a-century-of-women-stories-from-bengal","title":"Vermillion Clouds: A Century of Women Stories from Bengal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe social, cultural and literary landscape of women's writing in Bengal has seen a major transformation over the last one hundred years. Both style and content reveal the extent to which their worlds have changed, subtly and dramatically, even as the writing itself becomes simultaneously, creative and political. An astonishing variety of themes is present in this anthology as it grapples with, among other things, same-sex love, business entrepreneurship, love outside marriage, and the death of parents. Daughter, wife, sister, mother - the woman who has lived through the past century appears here in her many avatars. We see her making moral choices in the midst of wartime deprivation, and gripping her sister's hand even as international border politics deny their relationship. She tries to come to terms with the changes in her environment, as her children accuse her of being incapable of moving with the times - even Ma Durga, it seems, is not exempt. With occasional forays into the ghost story and the fable, this collection maps the bold contours of a broad but uneven terrain, with all the surprises and excitement this promises.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32320676954147,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51-e08XBDeL._SX294_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1596699635"},{"product_id":"women-without-men-a-novel-of-modern-iran","title":"Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women—including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher—as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32334239793187,"sku":"","price":550.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/41KWIJwiNqL._SX272_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1597400217"},{"product_id":"interior-decoration","title":"Interior Decoration: Poems by 54 Women from 10 Languages","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany of India's best known women poets, as well as some of its less familiar ones, are to be found in this landmark volume of 54 women poets from ten languages. Its rich and varied selection presents a feast of poetry in translations that are remarkable for their fidelity and poetic rendering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn experience of womanhood may be the locus of this anthology, but modes of expression vary by circumstance. Some women locate freedom in the sky, while others talk of being a witch, or of dance, or food. Some speak of the pain of husbands and the love of children, others of a lover's touch, and the value of mothers, work, and writing. Their voices are tinged, or ringing, with joy or anger, frustration or satisfaction, regret or ironic resignation. As women and as poets, they offer advice, consolation, perspective and startling insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA colossus like Kamala Das or Gauri Deshpande finds an echo in Mandakranta Sen, or Malika Amar Sheikh even, unexpectedly, in Mamang Dai or Pratibha Nandakumar. Amrita Bharati's intensely solitary interior landscape is counterpointed by the searing imagery of Salma; Savithri Rajeevan's oblique subversion with Jameela Nishat's overt dissent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMyth, fable, contemporary reality, fantasy and folklore are the sinew and substance of poems that range from the fact of discrimination to the exhilaration of discovering the power of the word. Exhilaration and discovery, then, are what inform the spirit of this unusual offering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32334239825955,"sku":"","price":395.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/518INsyylZL._SX322_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1597400220"},{"product_id":"address-book-a-publishing-memoir-in-the-time-of-covid","title":"Address Book:  A Publishing Memoir In The Time Of COVID","description":"\u003cp\u003eLocked down and housebound, the author leafs through her address book, looking for a name and number from long ago. As she turns the pages and sees the entries in it, she recalls the many remarkable encounters and experiences she has had in her 35 years as a feminist publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriters, publishers, friends and co-travellers, all part of an international women's movement and of an internationalism in publishing that set it apart from the multinational corporate model, then and now. The books she made, the authors she published, the issues she raised, and the friendships she forged, North and South - this little book offers a glimpse into what has been a wonderfully rich and rewarding feminist endeavour, and the sheer exhilaration of being at its cutting edge.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39369815064611,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51lpg6od1kL._SL500.jpg?v=1625048514"},{"product_id":"can-you-hear-kashmiri-women-speak","title":"Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product attribute overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"value\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKashmir is hypervisible and enormously powerful in the contemporary Indian imaginary, and can be made to carry different political meanings and messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe terms Kashmiri Pandit, Kashmiri Muslim, Kashmiri men and Kashmiri women, when used in public discourse perform distinct functions. This volume initiates the reader into a complex understanding of Kashmiri women’s life-worlds, in the context of protracted civil conflict and military occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe women here speak and write about the aftermath of the shocking abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019; of spectacles and street protests in the Valley; of women’s companionship and female alliances; and of the literature of resistance. They analyse the links between gender, militarism and militarisation; and between violence, women’s livelihoods, and environmental destruction. Forced into surrendering their rights and their autonomy, the Kashmiri women in this first-of-its-kind anthology shatter the silence and speak truth to power and to society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39512313528355,"sku":"","price":795.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/81uv1uguA6L.jpg?v=1637393600"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-stars-and-other-stories","title":"Beyond The Stars And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten while she was still in her late teens, Beyond the Stars was Qurratulain Hyder's earliest published anthology of stories, now available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 14 stories presented here offer a rare glimpse into the workings of a young writer's imagination as she explores literary devices and techniques, and experiments with stream-of-consciousness, interior monologue, and multivocal narration. She can be playful and sardonic, deeply reflective or wishful, but never pedictable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer protagonists, a group of young college-going men and women in pre-independence Lucknow, Mussoorie and Dehradun, know that enormous changes are imminent in their privileged lives, as W W draws to a close and freedom from the British draws near. Hyder captures both innocence and the piquancy of their situation in prose that was far ahead of its time. Beyond the Stars is steeped in modernity and stunningly original. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518161469475,"sku":"","price":425.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/81GkYuXwXHL.jpg?v=1637918439"},{"product_id":"street-singers-of-lucknow-and-other-stories","title":"Street Singers Of Lucknow And Other Stories","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis fascinating collection of short stories highlights the innovative genius of this iconoclastic writer as she moves from realism to the fabular, and from history to time-travel.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the title story, woven with social satire and melodrama, an itinerant entertainer becomes a well-known singer, eventually coming back to her Lucknow roots in a subdued, melancholy ending. A cast of characters entertain themselves with gossip and adultery in the lush tranquility of the tea gardens of East Bengal. At the centre is a mercurial, identity-changing adventuress, one who often appears in Hyder's fiction. Another is the memorable Eurasian, Catherine Bolton, who escapes her roots to achieve social success.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis versatile writer takes imaginative flight in unusual stories spanning decades, or even centuries. Her arsenal of techniques - pastiche, satire, memoir, collage - takes us to the place most important to her, the human heart in all its varied seasons.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518173954083,"sku":"","price":395.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/street-singers-of-lucknow_1.jpg?v=1732093751"},{"product_id":"obsession-and-wild-pigeons","title":"Obsession And Wild Pigeons","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the two bold and gripping novellas brought together in this volume, the inimitable Ismat Chughtai writes of subversive women—subversive in unexpected ways—as they experience romantic and sexual desire, defy societal restrictions, struggle, scheme and sometimes court tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eObsession (Saudai)\u003c\/i\u003e, deals with one of Chughtai’s favourite themes, the ‘master-servant’ romance—in this case, two brothers, sons of a feudal household, in love with the same orphan girl. And \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWild Pigeons (Jungli Kabutar)\u003c\/i\u003e—based on the experiences of a famous Bollywood personality—probes the theme of infidelity, dissecting the emotions not only of the partner who is betrayed but also the one who betrays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Chandni and Abida, the main protagonists of the novellas, Chughtai gives us two of the strongest women in Indian fiction—clever, self-willed, flawed and, in the end, far braver than the men in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518174904355,"sku":"","price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/41rMd6-36hL.jpg?v=1637921940"},{"product_id":"masooma","title":"Masooma","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet in the film world of the 1950s, this powerful novel may well be regarded as a work that celebrates all the talents of the legendary Ismat Chughta a writer who was brave, frank, provocative, entertaining even when she told the darkest of stories, and impossible to ignore. It traces the journey of Masoom the innocent one a young woman from a once wealthy family of Hyderabad who arrives with her mother in Bombay to become a star, but is soon embroiled in a game of exploitation, lust and treachery. She is transformed into Nilofar, a commodity that can be easily bought and sold; and in an effort to survive brutal and rapacious men producers, actors, pimps and procurers the mother and daughter descend into a world of corruption and moral decay themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518175723555,"sku":"","price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/411CsWeAjdL.jpg?v=1637922552"},{"product_id":"the-three-innocents-and-ors-chughtai-on-childhood","title":"The Three Innocents, And Ors: Chughtai On Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis delightful anthology offers us a rare glimpse into a less known aspect of Ismat Chughtai's writing- the warmth, humour and affection with which she writes on childhood. Shedding all the certainties of an adult she steps into a child's shoes, looks upon the world with an unjaundiced eye, and presents us with scrapes, situations and sentiments that are refreshing in their candour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs she says to three Innocents in her title story, \"The pranks you engage in today are no different from the ones we played yesterday... So what advice can I give you? Actually, I look upon you as very interesting advice meant for me!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is Chughtai at her disarming best!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518182834211,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/81_f1RCMUQL.jpg?v=1637924446"},{"product_id":"quit-india-and-other-stories","title":"Quit India!: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt’s Bapu’s birthday today, isn’t it? On this day Bharat’s son drew his first breath on earth in order to save its inhabitants from slavery. But why this air of gloom that hovers over chawls in Parel and Lal Bagh, as though no one had been born on October 2, rather thousands had died, millions of hopes had turned to ashes? Bapu belonged to the people, didn’t he? Then why has he been appropriated by smugglers? Just as in the old days gods were stolen, he too has been pilfered by people and enclosed in showcases, placed on top of safes… used like a stone on the weighing scale of transactions, affixed to boxes of sweets and biscuits, hung over advertisements for shoes. Funds are collected in his name, strikes are called off, controls are removed, and the black-market thrives in his name…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn the 70th anniversary of Independence, a selection of stories from Ismat Chughtai’s formidable body of work, written between 1938-1963, that reflects her insights into the loves and lives, as well as the shared histories and experiences of Hindus and Muslims in India. Witty, yet sharp, affectionate, yet clear-eyed, this is Chughtai at her penetrating best, taking a close look at community dynamics through her personal and social bifocals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39518208393251,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51NTbXQptYL._SX322_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1637927842"},{"product_id":"now-that-im-fifty","title":"Now That I'm Fifty","description":"Fifty! Half a century of your life has vanished, leaving only patches of memory, some brightly colored and joyous, others just blurred images. Now that I’m Fifty is a collection of stories about women at the 50 milestone. Some are looking back, wondering what to do about their spreading behinds, others are getting ready to fly out into the dangerous world, leaving their safe and secure homes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese stories are about journeys that begin at fifty, either within oneself or without, in the big bad world. One woman deals with a broken marriage by learning how to salsa, another begins seeing things, while a third finds new friendship with a stranger in a garden and cannot stop herself from thinking the unthinkable. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA holiday in Thailand goes shockingly wrong, a sudden death gives a new lease of life. Ordinary, everyday things are different when you’re fifty and time is running out. Here are stories about women at fifty, not young but not old, either !","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39730334760995,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/51ddA07mSPL.jpg?v=1661685592"},{"product_id":"a-gourmets-journey-discovering-the-exotic-erotic-in-food","title":"A Gourmet's Journey: Discovering The Exotic \u0026 Erotic In Food","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFood! The joy of discovery, the delicious tingling of the palate, the adventure in sampling the cuisines of the world... Jasleen Dhamija, gourmet cook, inveterate traveller and taster of delectable dishes, offers up a feast of recipes and a platter full of stories in A Gourmet’s Journey: Discovering the Exotic \u0026amp; Erotic in Food. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSavour some exciting recipes from Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, South East Asia... along with a liberal sprinkling of unforgettable encounters: childhood walks with Bapu, delightful conversations with an Italian film legend, a special airplane ride with a swashbuckling prince, pleasurable picnics under flowering apricots in Iran – and more!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39845901795363,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/products\/91BgzZeL02L.jpg?v=1666784308"},{"product_id":"an-endless-winters-night-an-anthology-of-mother-daughter-stories","title":"An Endless Winter's Night: An Anthology of Mother-Daughter Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection of 21 contemporary short stories and poems from various Indian languages reframes the mother-daughter relationship as a significant issue for women's writing from India. The daughter's place in the family particularly among the middle classes is often further complicated by the accelerating influences of education, travel, new forms of interpersonal relationship and reproductive technology. This has given many young women new mobility and freedom to travel, to live out new forms of sexuality, to make decisions about their fertility, their relationships with men and the power structures of their communities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSome of the most interesting and representative examples of this new writing included in this volume manifest the shock of the new, as contemporary developments from the interpersonal to the technological impinge on age-old patterns of familial interaction and are mediated through cultural specificities and the emotional tangles of the mother-daughter relationship. This anthology foregrounds the critical significance of this relationship, and calls upon feminist scholarship in India to put the mother-daughter relationship front and centre, to permit new insight into what it means to be female in contemporary India.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40318547099683,"sku":"","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/51vZtajDhuL.jpg?v=1710496314"},{"product_id":"at-home-in-india-stories-memories-portraits-interviews","title":"At Home in India. Stories. Memoirs. Portraits. Interviews","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e'At Home in India'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is an exceptional anthology of Qurratulain Hyder’s non-fiction and fiction writing. Here, in translation for the first time, are essays from her multi-volume, magisterial autobiography, Kar-e Jahan Daraz Hai, in which real people, eminent personalities, and landmark events, together, narrate the grand story of an illustrious family—and a subcontinent—grappling with Partition and its aftermath.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn addition, this book offers newly translated short stories; charming sketches of prominent women, like Hyder’s writer-mentors, Rashid Jahan and Anis Kidwai, and the film icon, Nargis; as well as rare, candid conversations with the author, on literature and life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40455371063331,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81aL4_5VN6L._SL1500.jpg?v=1716631299"},{"product_id":"once-upon-a-forest-other-stories","title":"Once Upon a Forest \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuddenly she heard a scratching sound and turned around quickly. The kalij pheasant, both male and female, appeared before her on the path. A few small chicks followed. At any other time, Naina would have been overjoyed at this amazing sight but now she just gave them a brief, anxious glance, willing them to go away.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBulbul Sharma takes the reader on a lively adventure through this incredible forest of stories, filled with quirky characters and some heart-stopping moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTake a look at what unfolds after Naina spots the illusive kalij on a birding expedition with her children; whether Jo finds the peace she is craving for, as she hurtles down the mountainside, among the mighty deodars; how the fifty-something Sudha breaks the news of befriending a perfect stranger to her family; or why Nirmala’s competitive mother-in-law finally declares a truce from their daily culinary battles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom talking to trees to moonlight madness, from constant cravings to messy divorces; a misadventure in a massage parlour and more, Sharma combines her talent for description and gift for characterisation with a gentle humour in this collection of 15 stories that celebrates women rediscovering life and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40656799924259,"sku":"","price":495.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/once-upon-a-forest_-_front_cover_1.jpg?v=1732089343"},{"product_id":"marriage-and-its-discontents-women-islam-and-law-in-india","title":"Marriage and Its Discontents: Women, Islam and Law in India","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebates around Muslim Personal Law (MPL), the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act have tended to focus on the issue of unilateral divorce, a right granted to husbands, as well as on polygamy and other discriminatory provisions in MPL.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarriage and Its Discontents: Women, Islam and Law in India documents this landmark study and, while giving no quarter to undesirable practices like triple talaq, presents the author’s detailed findings on when, and how, Muslim women resort to legal remedies should their marriages break down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer thoughtful—and thought-provoking—analysis is based on ten years of research in Chennai and Hyderabad, during which she consulted family court records and court petitions; conducted extensive interviews with government-appointed qazis in both cities; met and had detailed discussions with the women themselves, as well as with lawyers, judges, counsellors, court staff and advocates. She also examined, for the first time, the\u003cbr\u003ephenomenon of wife-initiated divorces or khula, and made the startling discovery that their number far exceeded court-awarded divorces in any given year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707811606563,"sku":"","price":650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81bj83jl7gL._SL1500.jpg?v=1737631321"},{"product_id":"krishna-living-with-alzheimers","title":"Krishna: Living With Alzheimer's","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlzheimer s is the commonest form of dementia, a condition that denotes not only memory loss but degeneration of all motor abilities. It has been estimated that the incidence of Alzheimer s and other dementias among the ageing in India is as high as 47 per cent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of Krishna Bhattacharya s fight against Alzheimer s, written by her husband. It is a frank, sensitive and unsentimental account of inadequate medical knowledge; of the importance of care; the ethics of care-giving; and the confusing, heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of living with a loved one who is living with Alzheimer s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this moving account Ranabir Samaddar turns his attention to one of the most critical issues of human life today. He writes with the insight of a sociologist and the compassion of one for whom quality of life depends as much or more on human interaction and empathy as it does on palliative therapy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707812982819,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/51w49NOxbfL._SL1000.jpg?v=1737632299"},{"product_id":"everyday-sustainability-gender-justice-and-fair-trade-tea-in-darjeeling","title":"Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEveryday Sustainability\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives—Darjeeling, India—where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market. The author questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement, and community level social justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707814555683,"sku":"","price":695.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/51Hi7CtS36L.jpg?v=1737633298"},{"product_id":"gardens-of-the-heart-and-other-festival-stories","title":"Gardens Of The Heart And Other Festival Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the seasons change, Bulbul Sharma’s quirky fictional families invite readers into their homes and the gardens of their hearts, to celebrate life and relationships, with generous helpings of traditional foods. Ten festivals, ten timeless tales with dollops of nostalgia; a tempering of family drama; a sprinkling of everlasting friendships... and that’s not all! If you want to rustle up your own celebratory spread, a selection of simple recipes is yours for the taking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707825860643,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/nxvmnpthya-1734947258-640x640.jpg?v=1737634673"},{"product_id":"writing-in-an-age-of-silence","title":"Writing in an Age of Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Writing in an Age of Silence , Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicago—the city with which she has become indelibly associated—from her arrival during the civil-rights struggle in the mid-1960s to her most extraordinary literary creation, the south-side detective V I Warshawski. Paretsky traces the emergence of V I Warshawski from the shadows of the loner detectives that stalk the mean streets of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s novels, and in the process explores American individualism, the failure of the American dream and the resulting dystopia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoth memoir and meditation, Writing in an Age of Silence is a beautiful, compelling exploration of the writer’s art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9\/11.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707828154403,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/writing-in-an-age-of-silence.jpg?v=1748435450"},{"product_id":"unsettling-the-archetypes-femininities-and-masculinities-in-indian-politics","title":"Unsettling the Archetypes: Femininities and Masculinities in Indian Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnsettling the Archetypes addresses these questions from the standpoint of longstanding issues within Indian society, history and culture. An expression of multiple temporalities and diverse regional contexts, these issues range from the nationalist movement for independence to the career of the Women’s Bill in Parliament; violence in Hindu-Muslim relations; meanings surrounding the body; the life of history textbooks; and forms of activism among Dalit communities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707836313635,"sku":"","price":650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81YHbnYFbXL._SL1500.jpg?v=1737635922"},{"product_id":"the-tiller-of-waters","title":"The Tiller of Waters","description":"\u003cp\u003eT\u003cspan\u003ehis spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding of the family sagas of Niqula Mitri and his beloved Shamsa, the Kurdish maid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMitri reminisces about his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEgyptian mother and his father who came back to settle in Beirut after a long stay in Egypt. Both Mitri and his father are textile merchants and see the world through the code of cloth, from the intimacy of linen, velvet, and silk to the most impersonal of synthetics. Shamsa in turn relates her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estory, the myriad adventures of her parents and grandparents who moved from Iraqi Kurdistan to Beirut. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaunting scenes of pastoral Kurds are juxtaposed against the sedentary decadence of metropolitan residents. Barakat weaves into her sophisticated narrative shreds of scientific discourse about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eherbal plants and textile crafts, customs and manners of Arabs, Armenians, and Kurds, mythological figures from ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Arabia, the theosophy of the African Dogons and the medieval Byzantines, and historical accounts of the Crusades in the Holy Land and the silk \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eroute to China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40707838640163,"sku":"","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81YzAY3BxFL._SL1500.jpg?v=1737636437"},{"product_id":"ways-of-being-creative-non-fiction-by-pakistani-women","title":"Ways of Being: Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDoes writing have a nationality? Are writers defined by geography, language, religion, gender and ethnicity alone, or are there other attributes that identify them?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFifteen of the most articulate and creative non-fiction writers from Pakistan eloquently demonstrate that, as Sabyn Javeri says, \"Who you are is more accurately represented by what you stand for, than by where you are from.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLarge-scale migration and transnational mobility have rendered national borders porous, while the Internet has internationalised communication in a way that practically erases territorial boundaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions about 'being' and 'belonging' acquire an urgency that demands articulation: how does a writer relate to her context, whether at 'home' or 'away', and locate herself and her writing in it? For the purposes of this anthology, Javeri believes that, \"A Pakistani writer is one who feels a connection to the land either by origin or by sensibility.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710148685859,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/ways_of_being.jpg?v=1737780592"},{"product_id":"situating-social-media-gender-caste-protest-solidarity","title":"Situating Social Media: Gender, Caste, Protest, Solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSocial media produces numerous spaces and opportunities, globally, for people to link up, reach out, mobilise, assert their identity, build bridges... For those on the margins, this virtual alternative enables them to break down otherwise impenetrable social barriers and form close-knit digifams. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs social media, then, a credible space for building social movements? Who is using it to register dissent, affect change? How successful have such movements been in taking over the digital public sphere? Are the prejudices that exist offline, present online as well? What is the political fallout of multidirectional conversations on the Internet? What about the backlash from trolls and gatekeepers? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSituating Social Media: Gender, Caste, Protest, Solidarity \u003c\/em\u003eenquiries into the possibilities and actual practices of activism and solidarity-building on social media, across the tropes of gender, caste, class, religion, political ideology and disaster. Its wide-ranging essays examine the reportage of incidents and issues by a path-breaking YouTube channel like Dalit Camera; analyse different movements that not only trended online but also thrived on the streets like #MeToo, Pink Chaddi and Gay for a Day campaigns; unpack the Help Uttarakhand mobilisation for climate disaster victims; and attempt a theory of what makes the digital public click.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710155894819,"sku":"","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/41XDLK2zT1L._SY466.jpg?v=1737781596"},{"product_id":"seed-sovereignty-food-security-women-in-the-vanguard","title":"Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system taht is better aligned with the ecological processes of the earth's renewal, the laws of human rights and social justice and the means through which our bodies stay well and healthy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710156451875,"sku":"","price":500.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81OpC4fiBjL._SY466.jpg?v=1737782386"},{"product_id":"scar-tissue-8-lives-8-young-women","title":"Scar Tissue: 8 Lives, 8 Young Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first title in the Maiden Voices series, \u003cem\u003eScar Tissue\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving collection of first-person stories by young women, speaking candidly and bravely about their lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"When one looks at scar tissue,\" says Nikhat Grewal, the author, \"there is only a vestige of the wound that once was. The healing process has begun and the battle scars are getting lighter. The stories that you read in this book are like scar tissue, proof that the healing has begun. These women reveal themselves by sharing not their pain but its aftermath. They are not victims but survivors claiming their space and the right to be who they are. These are women who are proud of their scare tissue.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710156910627,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/51YNRZ38RKL._SY466.jpg?v=1737783028"},{"product_id":"a-pandemic-and-the-politics-of-life","title":"A Pandemic and the Politics of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver one hundred million infections, and two million deaths, worldwide, with more than ten million cases and a lakh-and-a-half deaths in India. \u003cem\u003eA Pandemic and the Politics of Life\u003c\/em\u003e unravels the specifics of the Indian experience of battling COVID-19, while adopting an international perspective, in order to analyse the why and how of this public health emergency; the neoliberal response by the state; the production of an unanticipated politics of life; and the dramatic desire for a new kind of public power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten during an intense time, this monograph closely follows the progress of the virus, focusing on three themes: (i) the outbreak as an epidemiological crisis compounded by an economic crisis, a migrant crisis, and a political crisis; (ii) the presence of the marching migrant as the figure of this crisis; and (iii) the emergence of bio-politics from below as a reaction of the lower classes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver twelve months into 'fighting' this deadly virus, we now have a remedy in the form of a vaccine—but is that all the remedy we need? The author raises and answers some critical questions around the way issues of life and death are negotiated in a neoliberal order, and on what we mean by care, protection and solidarity in a post-COVID-19 world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710158024739,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/viewthumnailimagedynamic_book.jpg?v=1737784301"},{"product_id":"centre-stage-gender-politics-and-performance-in-south-asia","title":"Centre Stage: Gender, Politics and Performance in South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolitical struggle and cultural activism have a shared history in South Asia, dating back to colonial-era resistance and protest. The pre-Independence Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association and the Progressive Writers’ Movement were powerful vehicles for both dissent and creative expression, through theatre and the written word. Post-Independence language movements in Bengal and Tamil Nadu; individual instances of artists and writers defying censorship and state authority; maverick performers forging a new, unconventional idiom; and dancers and actors who refused to be restrained, are the inspiration for this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis offering is unique because it brings together, for the first time, accounts, analyses and anecdotes by practitioners from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, that explore this history of innovation and protest, and present a subcontinental narrative of aesthetic experimentation, political engagement and progressive social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also commemorates thirty years of Tehrik-e-Niswan in Pakistan, an organisation that has been in the forefront of advocating the rights of women, minorities and the marginalised; and continues valiantly to uphold the South Asian tradition of performing resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710161498147,"sku":"","price":795.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81v5NuuNs6L._SY466.jpg?v=1737786954"},{"product_id":"alone-together-selected-stories-of-mannu-bhandari-rajee-seth-and-archana-verma","title":"Alone Together: Selected Stories Of Mannu Bhandari, Rajee Seth And Archana Verma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith an uncanny eye for the nuances of individual situations and strong evocative styles, the three writers in this volume give us an insight into the interior landscapes of characters drawn largely from the Hindi-speaking middle and poorer classes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe meet restless and frustrated characters fighting against the demands and hypocrisies of both the conservative and so-called ‘liberal’ aspects of society. Here, the interior monologue is the primary form of expression, loneliness and alienation are dominant, and the personal is the chosen space for the articulation of politics. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are three profoundly existential writers and the stories, masterpieces of pyschological realism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40710162022435,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/9788188965809.jpg?v=1737787417"},{"product_id":"a-stone-thrown-in-a-pond-essays-poems-on-the-enigma-of-leaving","title":"A Stone Thrown in a Pond: essays \u0026 poems on the enigma of leaving","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery day, we leave something behind— and every day, we return to something we thought we had let go. A love. A loss. A memory. A trauma. A friendship. A relationship. A city or a home. A life, even. A stone thrown in a pond is an intimate, deeply personal collection of essays and poems by fifteen critically acclaimed writers, each exploring the many registers of leaving, as well as the paradox that we never truly leave anything behind. These are reflections of uncommon depth and candour: on letting go, moving on, starting over. Because leaving is rarely simple... and sometimes, even impossible. Featuring geeta patel jerry pinto sabyn javeri stephen alter aamer hussein ritu menon adania shibli ranjit hoskote bulbul sharma anita anand chaitanya kalbag kshama kaul gagan gill manjula narayan arundhathi subramaniam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41029688655907,"sku":null,"price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81sxmOLfU2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1762430554"},{"product_id":"place-intimate-encounters-with-cities","title":"Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eWhen I ventured out, my line of sight was dominated by three beautiful monuments in three cities—Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi; San Giorgio’s Church in Venice; Cihangir’s Mosque in Istanbul. Whatever else I had lost in the meantime, these structures remained steadfast in their unassailable loveliness: domes and minarets, arches and columns, steps and corridors. White and pink, grey and gold, shadowy and lit, all the poetry of built forms; each day that these pieces came together they gave me solace. But political troubles and environmental crises in all three places exacerbated my feelings of personal loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the five years that I tacked incessantly between Delhi, Venice and Istanbul, two questions plagued me: How do we lose what we lose? Why do we love whom we love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of essays written over 25 years, Ananya Vajpeyi recounts her experience of 13 cities across India and the world, engaging with them as layered spaces where history, memory and meaning converge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough elegantly crafted narratives, interwoven with cultural insight, political reflection and personal meditation, she evokes the emotional and intellectual contours of each place, offering readers her immersive, intimate encounters with cities she loves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Women Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41890655436835,"sku":null,"price":625.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/246102312.jpg?v=1770019074"}],"url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/collections\/publisher-women-unlimited.oembed","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}