May you be the mother of a hundred sons

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A perceptive, «legant exploration of the lives of India's women.
A reporter for The Washington Post, Elisabeth Bumiller came to India with her hosband, a correspondent for The^ew York Times, and over three-and-a-half years, travelled$lfall parts of the country, examining the paradoxes, problems, triumphs and realities of the lives of India's women: villagers, movie-stars, intellectuals, policewomen. 'A woman's role in Indian society, ' the author writes,. 'is full of contradictions. Whilé enormous numbers of them are illiterate, many hold important positions in politics and thé arts. While most suffer discrimination and poverty, others are transforming India into a modem nation. ' Bumiller brings out these paradoxes in a clean, insightful style that makes the vast complexities of the lives of India's four hundred million women accessible and compelling.
'The book is a sensitive probe into the complex experience of Indian women (its) chief .value lies in the clarity with which... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A perceptive, «legant exploration of the lives of India's women.
A reporter for The Washington Post, Elisabeth Bumiller came to India with her hosband, a correspondent for The^ew York Times, and over three-and-a-half years, travelled$lfall parts of the country, examining the paradoxes, problems, triumphs and realities of the lives of India's women: villagers, movie-stars, intellectuals, policewomen. 'A woman's role in Indian society, ' the author writes,. 'is full of contradictions. Whilé enormous numbers of them are illiterate, many hold important positions in politics and thé arts. While most suffer discrimination and poverty, others are transforming India into a modem nation. ' Bumiller brings out these paradoxes in a clean, insightful style that makes the vast complexities of the lives of India's four hundred million women accessible and compelling.
'The book is a sensitive probe into the complex experience of Indian women (its) chief .value lies in the clarity with which it places the women's question at the centre of our present social, cultural and political crisis.'
—Sunday Observer
' Elegant and lucidly written
—Indian Express
'A few writers go to find out about the çountry. More go to find out about themselves. Elisabeth Bumiller is that rarest of all things: a writer who has done both with grace and honesty. May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons is a world-class book that makes the world as small and personal as it must become if we are all to survive.'
—Gloria Steinem
Cover photograph by Ashok Majumdar Cover design by Amiya Bhattacharya Vissza