Anthology by Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Seng

Jalil elaborates on the challenges she encountered while selecting the stories for the volume. “I have edited anthologies in the past, pegged on different topics such as women, gender or communalism, etc. The challenge is to find voices reflecting the central concern that are representative and yet not stereotyped,” adding how we’ve set ourselves a fairly wide canvas – South Asian Women’s Writings.

“As the selection shows, those writings cover a range of issues – poverty, gender-based segregation, sexual violence, female foeticide and the skewered sex ratio, among others.”