Daily Archives: September 11, 2000


Revisiting the British gaze on the begums, the nautch girls and the ayahs of India By S. Kalidas  “When one writes about women, one must dip one’s pen in the colours of the rainbow and scatter the dust from butterfly wings on the page…“ -Denis Diderot, Sur les Femmes   Well, Pran […]

Bibis of the Raj