India, June 7 -- Women in the Womb of Time: Unveiling Ancient Feminism

Mukul Kumar

MRP: Rs 799

Publisher: BluOne Ink

Due to our cultural coding about women in ancient times, the negative statements about them in the Manusmriti and Kamasutra rise to the surface. However, it's important to know another side to such texts, which focuses on women's economic wisdom and innate intellect. Mukul Kumar's book Women in the Womb of Time, Unveiling Ancient Feminism is a bold and challenging incursion into ancient Indian literature, including the gaps, silences and misrepresentations that have surrounded the women figures in our long legacy. From this complex book, I wish to isolate three factors that have impressed me the most.

First that it is ...