Amar Chitra Katha compiles stories of India’s unheard-of, historic women
The HinduRukhmabai, an educated child bride, went on to question the intolerant society of the 1860s about why a woman cannot chose to leave her husband. Amar Chitra Katha’s ambitious graphic volume, Women Path-Breakers: Stories of Success and Strength unearths the names and stories of such phenomenal women who have paved the way to a lot of the rights that today’s women enjoy. Later when she joined Amar Chitra Katha as executive editor, she realised that a lot of the biographies that they did were of men. “Though we had marked the book for readers of the age group of eight to 16, Amar Chitra Katha is For Tripti, this was an eye opener: “What I found appalling about our own documentation was the fact there was absolutely nothing other than surface information. As in the case of all Amar Chitra Katha books, in this one too, the illustrations play a seminal role in the narrative.
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