What I also love about our mentor mentee interactions is the sharing of stories in our lives and sharing life's ups and downs and how we have navigated them.

Binodini Dasi, also known as Notee Binodini, was a Bengali theatre actor and thespian from 19th-century India who started acting at the age of 12.

Every Women's Day we are inundated with a deluge of patronising 'happy women's day' messages glorifying the 'Indian woman'. This is deeply damaging to us.

Let us gather together, women, even if in our own homes, and take back the freedom we all were denied by the violence upon us.

This book reminded me that before being a ‘mother’, my mother is a woman who is subjected to subtle patriarchal oppression of family, which no one talks about because it’s ‘invisible’ to us, or maybe because we have ‘chosen’ to unsee it.