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Anjali Kajal

Ma is Scared

Ma is Scared

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Ma is Scared is a collection of short stories by Anjali Kajal that explore the experiences of women in small towns and urban centers across North India, capturing the yearnings, restrictions, and possibilities of modern life from a feminist and anti-caste perspective.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Comma Press


Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English, showcasing the finest of her short fiction written and published over the last twenty years. The stories gathered here explore the experiences of women in small towns and urban centers across North India, ranging from the anxious mother waiting for her daughter to return home safely to the young student accused of stealing due to her caste. Kajal writes about desire, abuse, silence, love, and oppression in nuanced ways, exploring how they are negotiated in the world through relationships, family, motherhood, school, university, and jobs. Her language, imagery, and concerns are thoroughly contemporary, capturing the yearnings, restrictions, and possibilities of modern life from a feminist and anti-caste perspective.

Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English, showcasing the finest of her short fiction written and published over the last twenty years. The stories gathered here explore the experiences of women in small towns and urban centers across North India, ranging from the anxious mother waiting for her daughter to return home safely to the young student accused of stealing due to her caste. Kajal writes about desire, abuse, silence, love, and oppression in nuanced ways, exploring how they are negotiated in the world through relationships, family, motherhood, school, university, and jobs. Her language, imagery, and concerns are thoroughly contemporary, capturing the yearnings, restrictions, and possibilities of modern life from a feminist and anti-caste perspective.


Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912697663

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