Luke’s Reviews > Women Writing in India, Volume I: 600 BC to the Early 20th Century > Status Update
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'On the whole we have required that a reader use the context a story provides, which the other pieces and the introductions fill out and complicate, to make her way into the writer's times and the writer's world; we are asking that a reader—in India or abroad—learn slowly, as she relates to the objects, the concerns, the logic of the worlds women have inhabited over the years, to live a mode of life, and...
— Aug 10, 2015 02:12PM
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Saraswati Bai Rajwade (b. 1913, Kannada) - " Saraswati Bai Rajwade passed her school-leaving examination when she was twenty-five, ten years after her first writings had appeared in print...Her first story, "Nanna Anjana"...appeared in 1929. Since then she has written seventy short stories and several more articles and reviews, as well as poems and plays."
— Sep 11, 2015 11:06AM
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Shyamala Devi (1910-1943, Kannada) - "The public career of this short story writer, journalist, activist in the All India Women's Conference, member of the Dharwar Municipal Council, and secretary of a children's association lasted barely a decade...The "Mother and Child" section...was designed for the discussion of the social and political rights of women and their aspirations to progress."
— Sep 11, 2015 10:55AM
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Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1987, Malayalam) - "The story we have translated was written in 1938 and is based on a historical figure, Kuriyedathu Tatri (1885-?), whose name has become in Namboodiri society a symbol for the anger of the wronged woman...All the documents relating to the trial have been destroyed by her husband's family."
— Sep 11, 2015 10:37AM
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Ashapurna Debi (b. 1909, Bengali) - "Ashapurna Debi is perhaps the most prolific and popular of contemporary writers in Bengali. In a writing career that now spans a half century—her first story was published in 1936, though she had been writing since she was thirteen—she has published 150 novels and a large number of short stories and poems, many of which have been collected into books."
— Sep 11, 2015 10:10AM
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Kamla Chaudhry (b. 1908, Hindi) - "Throughout the 1930s and 1940s while she was actively involved in nationalist politics, Kamla Chaudhry was writing with a distinctive feminist edge on a range of themes....From 1947 to 1952, she served on the committee that drew up the Constitution of India and, in the late seventies, was elected a member of the Lok Sabha."
— Sep 11, 2015 09:46AM
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Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1908-1938, Oriya) - "Many people regard Kuntala Kumari, the first modern woman poet in Oriya, as Oriya's first feminist writer...She wrote several novels; best known among them are Kalibohu...Naa Tundi...and Parasmani...She was chairperson of the All India Women's Conference in 1931.
— Sep 11, 2015 09:37AM
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Mahadevi Varma (1907-1987, Hindi) - "Poet, painter, feminist, nationalist, and philosopher, Mahadevi Varma was easily one of the most distinguished and influential figures in modern India. She is best known in literary circles as one of the Big Four in the Chhayavad movement in Hindi poetry and as a writer of brilliant, chiseled prose sketches and essays."
— Sep 11, 2015 09:30AM
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Darisi Annapurnamma (1907-1931, Telegu) - "Even as a child she showed interest in philosophy and mastered Telegu, English, and Sanskrit....She was one of the representatives from Andhra at the 1929 All India Women's Conference, and one of the few women who participated in the famous Salt Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930."
— Sep 11, 2015 09:04AM
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Geeta Sane (b. 1907, Marathi) - "This significant but relatively unknown feminist writer...focuses on the contradictions that arose for women in the first decades of this century as they reached out for the new education and the promises it made...Her sense of how feminist issues are related to other social and political questions of the time sets her work apart.
— Sep 11, 2015 08:52AM
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Homvati Devi (1906-1951, Hindi) - "...[I]n 1939 [she] read her first story to an audience of fellow writers at the Nauchandi Mela held in Meerut. Her home soon became a gathering place for writers and intellectuals, who came even from other cities to discuss Hindi literature and read their work. Some of the debates...may well have changed the course of Hindi literature.
— Sep 06, 2015 11:40AM
