Adit Mukherjee’s Reviews > When Women Were Dragons > Status Update

Reading this book reminds me frequently of Rocky Aur Rani, specifically how the way that Jaya’s character was treated reinforced the patriarchal norms of the family for generations. Trauma has various methods of expressing itself, sometimes in lashing out and other times falling in line.

I am increasingly considering that I may not have been the intended audience, but might be the necessary audience.

There is an undercurrent of anger through these words. An understandable anger, and yet I wonder where this is leading.