Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women

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Roli Books Private Limited, Aug 17, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 174 pages
‘The history of women is left to us in folklore and tradition, in faintly-remembered lullabies and the half-forgotten touch of a grandmother’s hand, in recipes, ancestral jewellery, and cautionary tales about the limits of a woman’s empowerment.

Mountain Echoes describes the Kumaoni way of life through the eyes of four highly-talented and individualistic women. Their recollections mirror a social universe that no longer exists, that has been dissolved in the mainstream of modernization and urbanization, of democracy, education and emancipation. Shivani, Tare Pande, Jiya, and Shakuntala Pande were all alive and well when this book was first published in 1998. In the midst of all the rapid and unrecognizable charge that surrounds us, their stories and their memories are distilled into an even more precious evocation of times past.’
 

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About the author (2015)

Namita Gokhale, née Pant, has deep Kumaoni roots. Born in Lucknow in 1956, she spent her early childhood in Nainital. As a writer, publisher and festival director, she is deeply involved with different aspects of literary life. Her first novel, Paro, Dreams of Passion, was published to great acclaim in 1984. The author of twelve books, her several works of fiction include Gods Graves and Grandmother, A Himalayan Love Story, The Book of Shadows, Shakuntala: the Play of Memory, Priya in Incredible Indyaa, and The Habit of Love. She has coedited the landmark In Search of Sita and edited an anthology of travel writing, Travelling In, Travelling Out.

Namita Gokhale is also co-director of the famous Jaipur Literature Festival and of Mountain Echoes, the Bhutan Literary Festival.

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