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Writer and journalist Mrinal Pande sees in strong passionate women who defy the strictures of a male-dominated world, shades of the Goddess. There were many such women in her life, women who succeeded beyond the expectations of men. first, there was her forceful mother, the writer Shivani. Then came Badi Amma, the most colourful woman in this book, her domineering, intellectual aunt. There were the friends who silently lived lives of emotional deprivation till they opted out of the world altogether. There were women who made the news--among them prostitutes, activists and reformers. And there were also the women who preyed on men, in conscious contempt of their vulnerability in the grip of sexual passion. In all these women, the writer sees the original Devi, created by the Gods to quell the forces of evil that they had themselves failed to contain, but quickly dismissed by them once victory was theirs.But the Devi keeps coming back in a myriad manifestations of herself, sorrowing, vengeful, but always the prime mover in the lives of men through the ages... About the Author:
MRINAL PANDE has been the editor of Vama and Saptahik Hindustan, Executive Editor of Hindustan Dainik, and Senior Editorial Advisor to NDTV. She is also the founder president of the Indian Women's Press Corps. She has written extensively in Hindi and English, including novels, short stories and essays. Currently, she anchors the Hindi news for Doordarshan and writes a regular column for the Hindu and for Punjab Kesari.
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