Time to colour outside the lines

Author, Nilanjana Bhowmick mixes the personal and anecdotal with data and survey reports to build a more accessible narrative around women's rights, feminist values and patriarchal structures

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