All of us are familiar with the formula of a fairy tale; a damsel in distress meets a knight in shining armour, they fight a heinous villain, encounter a couple of crises and then settle down peacefully into a ‘happily ever after’. From drama to romance, fairy tales have all the essential elements to keep you hooked except that their lack of representation ignores a big fraction of the society and their side of the story. Flipping these cultural clichés on its face is, And they lived…ever after, an anthology of 13 fairy tales, retold by women with disability. A performance reading and book discussion of the same at Nehru Centre Library will explore two stories from the book, and bring audiences closer to the lived experiences of these women. 

The illustrated cover