Lohta was engulfed in stench. The looms that wove stardust turned to ash,” writes Neha Dixit in her meticulously reported first book, The Many Lives of Syeda X. Syeda, the pseudonymous main ...

Activist and policymaker Syeda Hameed’s A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life, though an account of an illustrious life – lush and rich – deeply resonates, page after page, with the idea ...