May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons

Elisabeth Bumiller, a journalist, accompanied her journalist husband to India. She did not intend to fall into the usual pattern of a woman reporting about women’s problems but was soon caught up in all sorts of stories about Indian women. She finally decided that Indian women were her window on India. She travelled through all the states, met all kinds of women, from a poor one who drank water to quench her hunger, to rich wives, actresses, painters, poets, politicians, etc. She has in this book given her impressions about various aspects of Indian womanhood.