#UstadAhmadLahauri

“Mīrā walked out of her marriage and became a legend; Bahiṇā stayed inside hers and became a witness — the woman who documented, from the inside, exactly what the institutions of caste and marriage did to a woman who wanted God and scripture, and whose written life is the first we have from any Indian woman's own hand.”

“A brahmin girl took a śūdra grocer as her guru and refused to give him up — through her husband's beatings and her community's threats of outcasting — and then did something no Indian woman had done before: she wrote her own life down, in verse, unsparingly, and called it testimony.”