Written by Anushree Majumdar |Published: July 23, 2019 12:40:55 am
‘There is a world of women who can’t write their own stories’: Kalpana Sharma
Kalpana Sharma, who has edited the anthology Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women!, on patriarchy, financial independence and why more stories of women need to be told.
In her essay, Stomping on the Cookie Cutter, journalist and sports writer Sharda Ugra writes that the 2011 Census reported that the number of urban single women was 27 million. “Of those 27 million, even if we assume that only 10 per cent are single by wild, wilful choice, it’s still 2.7 million women, the populations of Lithuania, Jamaica and Qatar. We are certainly not alone,” she writes. Ugra is joined by 12 other women in an upcoming anthology, Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women! (Women Unlimited), which explores why some Indian women, mostly living in urban centres, consciously decided to live single lives. Excerpts from a conversation with Kalpana Sharma, who edited the anthology:
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