Book Review: Women Who Wear Themselves – Conversations with Four Travellers on Sacred Journeys by Arundhathi Subramaniam
Namrata reviews Arundhathi Subramaniam’s Women Who Wear Themselves (Speaking Tiger, 2021) and observes how this book is a beautiful reminder of the fact that not every journey is meant to be taken physically. ISBN : 978-9390477463 Publisher : Speaking Tiger Release date: 14th June 2021 Price: INR 499/- The journey of a woman as per the societal norms consists of birth-marriage-children-death. Anything and everything beyond these four milestones are considered to be path-breaking (literally and otherwise too!) We are in the 21st century and we still raise eyebrows for women who choose a career, decide not to get married or have children or make any such independent choices that define their lives strongly. Now imagine women choosing the path of spirituality amidst this. Award-winning author and poet Arundhathi Subramaniam’s latest book Women Who Wear Only Themselves is about four such women who chose spirituality as their true calling and walked on their sacred journeys d