India, Nov. 3 -- What drew you to this book and to translating it into English for a wider audience?

I'd known of Ittehad for at least 20 years. I'd come across references to it and always found it intriguing. I remember wondering, is Vimmi Sadarangani related to the writer Guli Sadarangani? And why doesn't she appear anywhere? Not even in the two-volume 1993 anthology Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present edited by Susie Tharu and K Lalita. That included Popati Hiranandani, Sundri Uttamchandani, and others - but not Guli Sadarangani.

And every small entry I came across called the book controversial. To me, that should have made her better known, not less. Why was this pioneering woman, who wrote such a courageous book in 1941, ...