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A Spanking New Bestseller

Rosalyn D’Mello

This could have been a Mills & Boon novel, but for its sado-masochistic twist. So what is it about this cliché-ridden book that is driving women in hordes to read it?

No Room of Mine

In a life crowded with inspirational women between the ages of 90 and 5, I haven’t met one who needed a room of her own to accomplish what she set out to do

The F Word

At a time when many women are rejecting the ‘feminist’ label, those who led India’s first wave of feminism review the battles they fought

The Baggage We Carry

An artist from Pakistan and another from India tell the same story in their works—of women in chains

Women Who Rock

Growling, rasping and purring, here is the vanguard of female indie music, rocking stage after stage with performances like none other

Confessions of a Female Bartender

“My mother would pray I’d leave the job. She’d tell me family and friends were not happy that I was bartending”

Death of the Lady

A subspecies of the human race is fast becoming extinct. A lament to all that was graceful and dignified about women

Gold-Digger Nation

The former editor of Russian Playboy on Ukraine’s curious distinction of having the highest number of gorgeous women per square kilometer

My Wife’s an Actress

This book on the rebels of Hindi cinema, the women who crossed into a forbidden zone, probes their minds too sparsely.

Can’t Get No Self-Satisfaction

In this age of liberty, women talking about sexual intercourse raises few eyebrows. But the practice or open discussion of masturbation somehow remains a largely male domain.

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