Annie Zaidi

About: About Annie Zaidi: Essayist | Poet and Playwright | The Hindu Columnist | Writer of ‘Gulab’ | Winner of The Hindu Playwright Award

BOOK

Name: Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing

Publisher Name: Aleph Book Company

Genre: Women’s Non-Fiction

Description:

About ‘Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing’: Unbound is a collection of some of the most significant writing by Indian women over the past two thousand years. Divided into eleven sections, it encompasses writing on various aspects of life: spirituality, love, marriage, children, food, work, social and individual identity, battles, myths and fables, travel, and death. .Selected from hundreds of novels, memoirs, essays, short story collections and volumes of poetry that were either written in English or that have been translated into English, the pieces in this collection include the most distinctive and powerful voices from every era.

 “(…)Annie Zaidi has accomplished a mammoth task…’ Unbound’ is a labor of love, and a tantalizing glimpse of wonderful writers we must-read.” - The Indian Express.