When you have 12 short stories picked from 400 entries for a book, you expect a good read. She Writes asked budding women writers to develop a storyline around three categories and quotes: Growing Up in India — ‘Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes’ (Oscar Wilde); Woman in the City — ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’ (Gone With the Wind), and The Man in my Life — ‘Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his’ (The God of Small Things).

Authors Anisha Bhaduri