Jane Chelliah is of Tamil descent and lives in London. She blogs about race, feminist mothering and cultural issues at http://ambitiousmamas.blogspot.co.uk/.
A Leaf in the Storm, a short story by Lalithambika Antharjanam, is a layered narrative that brings together the themes of violence, gender, and partition.
The Second Wave of feminism is usually demarcated from the 1960s to the late 1980s. It was a reaction to women returning to their roles as housewives and mothers after the Second World War.