Women Unlimited/Kali for Women

25/05/2022

Obsession & Wild Pigeons

Chughtai writes of subversive women as they experience romantic and sexual desire, defy societal restrictions, struggle, scheme and sometimes court tragedy.

Obsession deals with one of Chughtai’s favourite themes, the ‘master-servant’ romance, while Wild Pigeons is based on the experiences of a famous Bollywood personality.
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Aditi Bishnoi
Tahira Hussain Naqvi
Indian Writers
CWDS
Everyday Feminism
Speaking Tiger Books
BookBub
Manju Kak
Laila El hasnaoui

24/05/2022

Menopausal Palestine Women At The Edge: Women At The Edge
Unmistakably political account links the state of Palestine to the lives often women for whom Palestine or its absence was the centrifugal force around which their lives revolved.

Each story is interesting and colourful on its own, but stitched together, the result is a poignant, beautiful and powerful narrative. Find more @
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Kalpana Kannabiran
Aditi Bishnoi
Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Tahira Hussain Naqvi
CWDS
Everyday Feminism
British Council Palestine
تلفزيون فلسطين Palestine TV

24/05/2022

Bans & Bar Girls: Performing Caste In Mumbai’s Dance Bars

This book analyses the reasons for the ban on bar girls in Maharashtra. It introduces the radical concept of caste capital to examine the process that led to the ban, the opposition to it, and the legal arguments for and against it. It analyses the implications of all these on caste and gender dynamics, and on the power play that sought to reinforce the caste and social status quo, via legislation.
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Kalpana Kannabiran
Everyday Feminism
CWDS
Indian Writers
Manju Kak
Aditi Bishnoi
Charu Semwal

23/05/2022

Schizophrenia is not a mental illness to me. It is not a brain disease. It is a word that can send shivers down anyone’s spine faster than the bogeyman. I intentionally use the word ‘schizophrenist’, not because I want to flaunt the label, but because I want people to know that they can come up with any label out there and throw it at me and I will still find a way to own it, use it and turn its entire meaning over. This to me is schizophrenia. As disturbing as the experience of it is, it is only that—an experience. Just another way to be and to exist.”

Meet the dynamic powerhouse, Reshma Valliappan, fondly known as Val Resh. She is an inspiration as is her art. Her laughter is infectious as is her passion. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 22, she has penned Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizoprenist, an extraordinary, first-of-its kind account about her own experience of living with therapies and medication, surviving su***de attempts and finding support groups.

Fallen, Standing shines a gripping and necessary spotlight on schizophrenia. This must-read book is a triumph of her [Valliappan’s] spirit in the face of years of stigma, judgement and isolation. —NDTV

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20/05/2022

Ecology, equity and efficiency meet in biodiversity, while they are in opposition with each other in monocultural and homogeneous systems. Neither ecological sustainability nor livelihood sustainability can be ensured without a just resolution of the issue of who controls biodiversity.

After centuries of the gene-rich South having contributed biological resources freely to the North, governments in the South are no longer willing to have biological wealth appropriated for free and sold back at exorbitant prices to them, as ‘improved’ seeds and packaged drugs.

To redress the North-South imbalance and to recognise the contributions of local communities to the development of biodiversity, it is imperative that regimes based on bio-imperialism be replaced by structures based on bio-democracy. Bio-democracy involves recognising the intrinsic value of all life forms and their inherent right to exist. To understand the links between biodiversity, bio-technology and climate chaos, read Terra Viva – My life in a Biodiversity of Movements by Vandana Shiva: https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22741

19/05/2022

'Gaza Mama' is both a personal diary and a selection of political articles. It is a window into the life of a busy journalist and a caring mother, a spectator observing, and most importantly, an actor living in Gaza from the outside in.

https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22469

19/05/2022

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home'

How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile? How can exile and home be written?, 15 outstanding Palestinian writers respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics. Read more on https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22410
Aditi Bishnoi
Laila El hasnaoui
Amr Hassan
Awid Awid

18/05/2022

Would you put a megalomaniac eugenist billllionaire in charge of the planet? In 'Oneness Vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom' Vandana Shiva writes about the harsh reality that awaits us all if mammon is to have priority over life itself.

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In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires Club of Gates, Buffett, Zuckerberg and other modern Mughals, whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit o...

18/05/2022

Ship of Sorrows by Qurratulain Hyder and translated by Saleem Kidwai

Somewhat idealistic set of young people with deep bonds of family friendships linking generations. Groomed in the best traditions of the east and the west. These aspiring writers, dancers and artists bemoan the loss of the goodness of humanity, of the Ganga-Jamuni culture, and the death of the old order, which has caught them off guard.

https:// womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22506

17/05/2022

"(River of Fire) has a magisterial ambition and technical resourcefulness rarely seen before in Urdu fiction. (...) Hyder employs diverse genres -- letters, chronicles, parables, journals -- to present her melancholy vision of the corrosions of time." - Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books
https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22450

17/05/2022

My Damascus

A nostalgic voyage that reveals the Syrian capital's majestic past.

In My Damascus Suad Amiry, takes her reader by the hand through not only the narrow alleys and lively souqs adjacent to the grand Umayyad Mosque, but also into the intimate spaces of her rich merchant grandfather’s Baroudi Mansion.

https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22481

17/05/2022

Between Democracy and Nation: Gender and Militarisation in Kashmir

Drawing on women's subjective experience of militarisation, Seema Kazi, examines the relationship between state military processes at the 'national' level and social transformations at the local/societal level. By way of conclusion, she maintains that Kashmir's humanitarian tragedy - exemplified by its gender dimensions - underlines why militarisation has failed to either ensure 'security' for the state, or security and justice for Kashmiris.

https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22423

16/05/2022

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Terra Viva: My Life in Biodiversity of Movements by Vandana Shiva

Trained as a physicist, Vandana Shiva says, “It was Chipko that made me realise, in intimate detail, how biodiversity is at the heart of sustainable economies.” Working with peasant women in her home state of Uttarakhand, she learnt her first lessons in ecology: transferring fertility from the forest to the field. Chipko became her “university” and, turning away from quantum physics, she made the preservation of biodiversity and sustainable societies her life’s work.

This powerful memoir looks back at the most memorable campaigns and movements that Shiva has been part of, while looking ahead to the challenges posed by the COVID crisis, the privatisation of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. “The awareness that Vandana’s work and actions provoke is sublime,” says Gilles-Éric Séralini, “it will bring you light.”

Get your copy at: https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22741

Aditi Bishnoi
Vandana Shiva
Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Indian Writers
Tahira Hussain Naqvi
Seed
Navdanya International
Speaking Tiger Books
CWDS
Everyday Feminism
BookBub
May Day Bookstore

Vandana Shiva has worked with farmers’ and people’s movements across the world against what she calls “seed imperialism”, economic polarisation, and the digital colonisation of our ecological and social diversity. This powerful memoir looks back at the most memorable campaigns and movements ...

13/05/2022

Life under occupation is preventing “million[s] [of] Palestinians from living a normal life.” What the media should do ... is to cover the stories of “people who want to act, to make music”. Because the crux, as [Saud] Amiry puts it, is: “we don't want to be heroes. We want the right to live.”

A powerful Palestinian voice was recently silenced, but the struggle to be heard, to share their lived reality continues for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, whether at home or in exile. Here’s a selection of heartfelt narratives that give “exceptional” insight into their world, their resistance, their hope.

Golda Slept Here – https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22399

A Party for Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life in Prison – https://womenunlimited.in/a-party-for-thaera-palestinian-women-write-life-in-prison.html

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile & Home – https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22410
Amr Saad
Anitta
Sahana Ghosh
Indian Writers
Anushka Sen
Kalpana Kannabiran
Anita Balakrishnan

12/05/2022

Krishna: Living With Alzheimer’s

Sociologist Ranabir Samaddar shares the story of his wife, Krishna Bhattacharya’s fight against Alzheimer’s, while also recounting the confusing, heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of living with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s.

https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22468
Aditi Bishnoi
Mental health matters
Mental Peace

11/05/2022

Address Book: A Publishing Memoir In the time of COVID

"Address Book takes the reader on a literary pilgrimage as Menon cobbles together recollections of the stalwarts she has worked with".Read more about the book here.https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22489
Kalpana Kannabiran
Aditi Bishnoi
Jayanti Reddy
Everyday Feminism
Anupama Rao
BookBub
Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Tahira Hussain Naqvi
Dr Manjula Anagani

11/05/2022

A Revolutionary Life

A remarkable book being the autobiographical account of the key shaper of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army (INA). A Document Of Immense Political And Historical Value,.that offers a unique perspective on women in Armed Struggle and in the freedom movement. This volume, lucidly and simply written, sheds important light on the gender perceptions on Subhas Chandra Bose.
Aditi Bishnoi
Kalpana Kannabiran
Sundar Gopalakrishnan
CWDS
British Council Egypt
Tahira Hussain Naqvi
https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22634

11/05/2022

GOLDA SLEPT HERE
Politics 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 émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.

Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting.

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Suad Amiry
Indian Writers
British Council Palestine
Sruthy.K.S
Sahana Ghosh
Jarir Bookstore مكتبة جرير
ranjanakumairranjanakumair
Anupama Rao
Everyday Feminism
CWDS
Aditi Bishnoi

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 émigré Palestinian communities in other countries of the Middle East. She mixes nostalgia with anger, evokes the sights a...

10/05/2022

Terra Viva My Life In A Biodiversity Of Movements

This powerful memoir looks back at the most memorable campaigns and movements that she has been part of, while looking ahead to the challenges posed by the COVID crisis, the privatisation of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. “The awareness that Vandana’s work and actions provoke is sublime,” says Gilles-Éric Séralini, “it will bring you light.”

Read an excerpt from ‘Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements’, by Vandana Shiva.

https://scroll.in/article/1023478/terra-viva-vandana-shivas-memoirs-guide-us-through-her-ecofeminism-and-food-sovereignty-activism

An excerpt from ‘Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements’, by Vandana Shiva.

10/05/2022

Conjugality Unbound: S*xual Economies, State Regulation And The Marital Form In India

This book questions marriage as a self-evident, timeless, and unitary institution, and considers the complex negotiations of everyday intimate, economic, sexual, domestic, and procreative arrangements that occur under the sign of marriage.
Gender Equality Network
Aditi Bishnoi
Kalpana Kannabiran
Indian Writers
Sahana Ghosh
Everyday Feminism
https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22439

10/05/2022

Daughter Deficit: S*x Selection In Tamil Nadu

Daughter Deficit: S*x Selection In Tamil Nadu

Sharada Srinivasan examines disturbing fact from the context of women’s lives to unravel the causes of daughter elimination, and the mechanisms which create and sustain an environment in which this is imaginable.

This book is about girls who are denied the right to live or to be born in India, and it asks why and how such a situation has come about.
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10/05/2022

Feminism In India

Why is feminism often associated with aggressive women who disrupt social norms and harmonious families? This book brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate the issue in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore the theoretical foundations of feminism here. https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22426
Aditi Bishnoi
Indian Writers
Sahana Ghosh
CWDS
ranjanakumairranjanakumair

Why is ‘feminist’ a label that some liberal, emancipated women recoil from? Why is feminism often associated with aggressive women who disrupt social norms and harmonious families? This book brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate the issue in the c...

10/05/2022

Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality

Ambitious, wide-ranging and provocative, Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality will be invaluable for those who engage this field academically, and politically.

Given the rapidly changing, and charged, terrain of contemporary histories of caste and gender in India, this volume opens up modes of reading these categories in unpredictable ways, while alerting the reader to the challenges involved in an engagement that couples the two. Find more on

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Sahana Ghosh
Anushka Sen
Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Anupama Rao
Kalpana Kannabiran
Aditi Bishnoi
Sruthy.K.S

09/05/2022

Social media produce 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.

Is 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? 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?

Read some cutting-edge scholarship on social media activism and solidarity-building, across the tropes of gender, caste, class, religion, political ideology and disaster in Situating Social Media: https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22416
Aditi Bishnoi

06/05/2022

How does one partition the culture and ideals of an individual?”
“Who will come to your plays and our dances now? Don’t you know that new walls have been built around art, that blood is flowing in the valley and on the roads? Many have died and more will die.”

Qurratulain Hyder’s Ship of Sorrows combines autobiography, fiction, and the documentation of time and place. The author debuts in the novel as Anne Hyder and is part of a thinking, art-literature loving, and somewhat idealistic set of young people with deep bonds of family friendships linking generations.

Unlike Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai and other celebrated writers whose Partition stories were largely written from the perspective of average men and women who witnessed its horrors, Ship of Sorrows is a coming-of-age story, without a conventional storyline.

Get your copy at: https://womenunlimited.in/catalog/product/view/id/22506

Aditi Bishnoi
Tahira Hussain Naqvi

At the heart of Ship of Sorrows is a group of young friends, men and women, Hindu and Muslim, living in Lucknow on the cusp of Indian Independence. Like the rest of the country, their lives are in turmoil. Qurratulain Hyder places the six friends in situations that reflect this changing context and....