'The Fifteen' book review: To be read and revered
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'The Fifteen' book review: To be read and revered

New Indian Express  

History has a way of erasing its traces. These questions are asked and answered succinctly by the authors of the book, The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly. Still, the authors—Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali—have done credible research and told their stories, and it is an important first step. She married a man 23 years her senior with the condition that she could learn English and that he would never ask what time she would come home. In her own defence against the charge of being two-faced, Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul defended wearing the naqab on occasion by saying that the personal must be kept away from the professional.

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