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Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman's Burden
Author: Nilanjana Bhowmick
Publisher: Aleph
Pages: 243
Price: Rs 699
Gender inequality is not a new story. It has been playing out in a million abhorrent ways, over hundreds of years; and its insidious hold on our lives, is well documented. It is a story that never grows old, nor does its influence wane.
Why are unfair practices and patently unjust belief systems so difficult to dismantle? Why do women, even those who take on strong roles outside the home as cops or chief executive officers of large conglomerates or teachers and journalists and even those who
