Women of Substance

<p>Through the Ages women the world over have lived under subjugation; women in India have been subjected to various atrocities as well. Nonetheless despite the odds stacked against them many have become shining examples for others to follow; not for them the phrase: Frailty thy name is woman.</p> <p> So it is with the characters whose stories appear on the pages of this book. Their names may be ordinary but their show of resilience is extraordinary.</p> <p> Kavita Pushpa Poonam Deepa Charu Aru and Madhuri hailing from different cities and different strata of the Indian Society all run into problems not of their making. From fighting to keep their foetuses alive to confronting the problem of impotency to avoiding unwarranted advances to being involved in murders to giving birth to a baby who talks about his past to taking care of a son who has cancer to sustaining a brain haemorrhage to having a tumour and a baby growing together to being looked down upon as a divorcee - they face it all. But their never-say-die attitude stands them in good stead. They tackle their individual problems and come up triumphant.</p>