Foreword : motherhood revisited / Jasodhara Bagchi -- My mother / Bharati Ray -- My mother, my daughter / Maitreyi Chatterji -- When Alamelu shrugged / C. S. Lakshmi -- An outsider at home / Neela Bhagwat -- Her infinite variety / Roshan G. Shahani -- The cross a woman carries / Urmila Pawar -- My mother's gardens / Tutun Mukherjee -- Stepmother at seventeen / Maithili Rao -- Motherhood and me / Dhiruben Patel -- A mother, myself / Kamala Das -- A delicate bondage / Pratibha Ranade -- Motherhood : not a joke! / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Learning to be a mother / Shashi Deshpande -- No baby, no cry! / Deepa Gahlot -- More a friend / Jyotsna Kamal -- Letter to my children / Mallika Sarabhai -- Paint and nursery rhymes / Rekha Rodwittiya -- The colour of hibiscus / Nita Ramaiya -- The mother who wasn't / Anwesha Arya.

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