DECODING DRAUPADI
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In the Folds of Our Truths
An anthology of women's stories, with the Purple Pencil Project.
In the Folds of Our Truths: Women and Their Many Lives is an anthology of fiction and non-fiction by women, made by Decoding Draupadi and the Purple Pencil Project and published in 2024. It's for readers who want to know what being a woman in South Asia is like, in women's own words.
The theme was women and their many lives. Do you change your clothes, or the way you speak, around family? Do you keep parts of your life, your sexuality, your habits, from the people closest to you? The anthology explores the guilt, fear and anxiety of living like a fugitive, sometimes in your own home, and the thrill, joy and freedom that come with it too.
“This book should be your essential 2024 gift of reading.” Rochelle Potkar
How the book was made
In February 2023 we put out an open call for stories on one theme: women and their many lives. Anyone could submit, as long as the story was about women, and by women we meant everyone who identifies as one. Writers pitched first, then sent finished pieces of 2,500 to 5,000 words, in fiction, non-fiction or anything in between. The stories chosen became this book.
About the Purple Pencil Project
The Purple Pencil Project is a community of readers and writers on a mission to bring the most diverse stories from India and its literature to more people. Decoding Draupadi wanted to start conversations between and about women, and stories felt like the most honest way in.
Where to buy
The book is on Amazon India. If you liked it, read the stories on our blog, where women talk about work, money and the choices they made, or join Draupadi at Work, our community for working women.
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