Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

by Shrayana Bhattacharya

I worked up the courage to ask her, and she smiled. ‘All this empowerment (‘sashaktikaran’) is good in English-language reports. I have learned these words through our meetings at the office. But in life, things are more complicated. You need peace (shanti) in families.