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    This post was due two days ago, due to lack of time I couldn't finish writing it. 'The Prisons we broke' is the book i recently read, as recent as yesterday. It was part of my reading list for a long time and I am glad I was able to get to it finally. It has been really hard to my hands on any books because of the lockdown, so I feel all the more happy about being able to finally get the book and complete reading it as well.  It is an autobiography of Baby Kamble, initially written in Marathi, which was later translated by Maya Pandit. I won't go too much into the details of the book but I believe it is one that everyone must read if one were to get an insight into how horrid things were for the Dalits. I'm not saying they aren't bad now, they are, but in a much different manner than compared to what it was like back then. I think if there is any thing really horrible in this world it is the religion called Hinduism, I don't think there is anything worse...

     "You don't know what it is to be a mother" shouted my friend on the other end of the phone, trying to shut me down in an argument we were having. I retorted immediately saying I know how much time kids take so I had said goodbye to my friend ever since she became a mother.      But that sentence has lingered in my mind ever since even though it was a couple of months back and I have gone back and forth with my ideas with regard to the subject. It is true I am not a mother, I have no children nor am I too keen on having any at least in the near future. But must someone be shamed for not being a mother or not wanting to be a mother. There is so much glorification about motherhood in popular culture, endless songs, poems, movies and tv series all emphasizing the inexplicable bliss of motherhood. Needless to say a lot of our attitudes are also shaped by the popular culture of our times, and women are always told about how your life is never complete until ...