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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
– Gitanjali
So easily we make use of the word ‘Freedom’ so momentary is our ability to understand patriotism. Maybe because we never witnessed the horrors and probably as our great grandparents would wish – we never should. But that shouldn’t stop us from understanding the freedom they cherished. In their era, in their backyard, in their own homes. With women in the core of these 3 books that we have to offer in the August Book Box, delve into the journey they traversed.
– Ladies Tailor by Priya Hajela brings in the perspectives of partition and its effects on people who had to migrate and restart their lives.
– Chronicles of Lost Daughters brings to light the various distinguished personalities and their efforts for women rights, child marriages & Sati
– Breaking Free explores the devdasis’s plight at the time of Raj and the culling of the myths and rumours that devdasis were fallen women.
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