May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons (53 page)

Smita Patil on the set of
Dance Dance
in Bombay.

Shabana Azmi
(left)
on location for the film
Sati
.

Veena Bhargava, Calcutta painter.

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Calcutta poet.

Aparna Sen, filmmaker.

Shah Bano Begum.

A vegetable seller with the Working Women’s Forum, Madras.

Gayatri Devi, the former maharani of Jaipur.

Three Muslim women in purdah.

Kiran Bedi.

Arvindar Rana (right) presiding over her kitty party in New Delhi.

A dai during a break in a training session in rural Gujarat.

Ranjanben Atodariya
(left)
of SEWA Rural taking a blood test of an expectant mother in a Gujarati village.