The interviews in this volume are the outcome of a series of workshops held with women writers during 1999-2001, on the question of gender-based censorship and related issues. Nearly 200 writers from ten Indian languages met to talk about the circumstances in which they write—and in which they are read and written about. They represented a true cross-section of society in terms of location, age, caste, community or religion, and genre; as the discussions progressed they unfolded a rich tapestry of experience and insight across languages and regions; gender and genre; caste and community.
Featured here are: Nayantara Sahgal; Nabaneeta Dev Sen; Dhiruben Patel; Sara Aboobacker; Bama; Mangala Godbole; Rukmini Bhaya Nair; Volga; Pradnya Lokhande; Anamika; Sarup Dhruv; Jameela Nishat; Vasireddy Seeta Devi; Ilampirai; Shafeeq Fatima Shera; T. Sunandamma and Mridula Garg.