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A Woman of No Consequence by Kalpana Karunakaran
Storizen
|Nov 2025
Kalpana Karunakaran's "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" is a deeply sensitive and insightful look at the life of the author's maternal grandmother, Pankajam, in the context of 20th-century India.
The book reveals the inner life of a woman who, in spite of being called a "woman of no consequence," showed remarkable fortitude, intellectual curiosity, and quiet defiance within the confines of Tamil Brahmin orthodoxy through an extensive collection of letters, autobiographical fragments, and semi-autobiographical stories. Author Kalpana skillfully situates Pankajam's personal journey within the broader socio-political changes of her era, from the World Wars to India's independence movement.
This story is from the Nov 2025 edition of Storizen.
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