Kalpana Sharma, the author of The Silence and the Storm, is admired for her insightful reporting of people living on the margins of India’s unequal society. Her book is a sympathetic and angry narrative of the many forms of violence women in India continue to face. Apart from physical assault, the lives of women are destroyed by development projects.
The government has put in place many laws, some stringent, thanks to relentless lobbying by women’s groups. The state also campaigns persistently for women’s rights. It would be churlish to deny this. . .
