Devi : Tales Of The Goddess In Our Time.

A woman empowered is the Goddess incarnate... Writer and journalist Mrinal Pande sees in strong passionate women who defy the strictures of a male-dominated world shades of the Goddess. There were many such women in her life women who succeeded beyond the expectations of men. First there was her forceful mother the writer Shivani. Then came Badi Amma the most colourful woman in this book her domineering intellectual aunt. There were the friends who silently lived lives of emotional deprivation till they opted out of the world altogether. There were women who made the news?among them prostitutes activists and reformers. And there were also the women who preyed on men in conscious contempt of their vulnerability in the grip of sexual passion. In all these women the writer sees the original Devi created by the Gods to quell the forces of evil that they had themselves failed to contain but quickly dismissed by them once victory was theirs. But the Devi keeps coming back in a myriad manifestations of herself sorrowing vengeful but always the prime mover in the lives of men through the ages... 'There is a fluidity about the narrative that enables Pande to blend stories vignettes thoughts reflections memories and much else in a seemingly effortless manner?Financial Express 'It is the spelling out of the secret places from which and into which the narrative of Badi Amma flows that is the abiding strength of DEVI'?Outlook 'DEVI is a book that should be read and re-read'?The Hindu