I recommend reading Manjiri Indurkar's Origami Aai alongside her memoir to have a fulfilling and enriching experience of telling one's story with grace.

Homemakers or as we often call them, 'housewives' are IMO the most underestimated and disrespected of women. Time this changed.

She single-handedly took care of a joint family consisting of 4 children, 2 old in-laws, 4 of my father's unmarried sisters, and 1 unmarried brother.

Women with disabilities are not expected to have the same feelings and needs, both bodily and socially, as those without. A bitter truth.

A regular family gathering. Anuya was attending her favorite chachu’s 50th birthday celebration. As was the norm, her dad and his cousins were regaling the gathering with stories from his childhood—how a game of hide & seek turned into a nightmare for their family because Sumit was bitten by an army of ants, how Sumit’s obsession […]