My Half Of The Sky

The excerpt from the book 'My Half Of The Sky’ by Indrani Raimedhi talks about Birubala Rabha who has been crusading against witch-hunting for several years now. She went door-to-door to spread awareness about the cause and became architect of the country’s most stringent laws against witch-hunting recently enacted by Assam.

Meet Parbati, a female mahout who tames elephants, uses ash instead of toothpaste, sleeps inside a tent on a threadbare mattress without a pillow and with tools of her trade all around her. In this excerpt from My Half Of The Sky, published by Sage Publications, author Indrani Raimedhi talks to Parbati about her life in the wild.