Nivedita is a graduate in English Literature and Economics from Delhi University. She is a reader beyond genres and finds solace in the works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. She’s usually up to finding conspiracies in stories and sees her future as a journalist.
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.