The social, cultural and literary landscape of women’s writing in Bengal has seen a major transformation over the last one hundred years. An astonishing variety of themes is present in this anthology, as it grapples with, among other things, same-sex love, business entrepreneurship, love outside marriage, and the death of parents. Daughter, wife, sister, mother—the woman who has lived through the past century appears here in her many avatars. With occasional forays into the ghost story and the fable, this collection maps the bold contours of a broad but uneven terrain, with all the surprises and excitement this promises.
