When educated urban women felt the need to assert their voices through history, they shouted slogans, led protest marches and burnt their bras. Rural women sang. Yes, we have books written by Bengali women from earlier times, but those were by aristocratic, Brahminised women who had access to education. “I have recordings of women singing such songs and crying. “1947 could not destroy them, but now the mobile phone might,” Mukhopadhyay notes.

Source: The Telegraph March 06, 2026 16:40 UTC