The cost of grief / Tanzila Ahmed -- My mother, the rebel / Jabeen Akhtar -- The fantasy of normative motherhood / Roksana Badruddoja -- The photograph of my parents / Neelanjana Banerjee -- The politics of being political / Piyali Bhattacharya -- Fair game / Madiha Bhatti -- Daughter of mine / Meghna Chandra -- Flipping the script : finding the love of my life while writing the book of my heart / Sona Charaipotra -- Good girls become doctors / Sayantani DasGupta -- Subterfuge : on how to be obedient while rebelling / Tara Dorabji -- Good girls pray to God / Triveni Gandhi -- Someday never comes / Rajpreet Heir -- Affording the perfect family / Leila Khan -- Acting the part / Rachna Khatau -- Becoming a reluctant breadwinner / Swati Khurana -- Modern mythologies / Surya Kundu -- Without shame / Ayesha Mattu -- The day I found out I was a witch / Fawzia Mirza -- "The only dates are the ones you eat" and other laws of an immigrant girlhood / Nayomi Munaweera -- Patti Smith in the dark / Jyothi Natarajan -- What it looks like to grow / Ankita Rao -- Breathe / Phiroozeh Petigara -- Amma / Hema Sarang-Sieminski -- Draupadi walks alone at night / SJ Sindu -- Cut / Natasha Singh -- Operation make my family normal / Mathangi Subramanian.