Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings Celebrating our Grandmothers

Book Name in English : Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings Celebrating our Grandmothers

Edited by Abhirami Girija Sriram & Babitha Marina Justin
“A warm book...warm, aromatic and plentiful, like home-baked bread.“
J Devika, feminist reader and researcher.

This book is an ode to the lives of 44 feisty women we are proud to call our foremothers. In its pages, you will find vivid, quirky, bittersweet testimonies that often turn the cliché of the doting grandmother on its head. Aai, Aaji, Achamma, Ammachi, Ammumma, Dadi, Eyabhai, Gowrimma, Gramma, Granny, Iye’mi, Jejema, Lala, Mariamma, Maruska, Nani, Olinka, Oma, Paati, Unniamma: matriarchs by any name blaze as molten-bright and rise to bear witness across nations, cultures and generations.
Edited by Abhirami Girija Sriram and Babitha Marina Justin, Salt & pepper & silver linings is an alphabet of memory which brings together a sisterhood of vibrant voices from across the world.

Contributors:

Aarcha Mahendran
Aishy
Anandam RavI
Ann Torday Gulden
Anna Sujatha Mathai
Annie Zaidi
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Babitha Marina Justin
Belinda Subraman
Bhavana Nissima
Charulekha
Gayle Brandeis
Gloria Mindock
Jaishree Misra
Jhilmil Breckenridge
Jumoke Verissimo
Karla KovalovA
Kate Campbell
Kathleen Kilcup
Khyrunnisa A
Leslie McGrath
Linda Ashok
Manjiri Indurkar
Maria Kranidis
Meena T. Pillai
Meera Nair
Nabanita Kanungo
Nina Kossman
Nitoo Das
P.C. Vandall
K.E. Priyamvada
Rochelle Potkar
Seema Krishnakumar
Shanta Acharya
Sharmila Ray
Sharon Frye
Shikha Malaviya
Sophia Naz
Suneetha Balakrishnan
Taseer Gujral
Tishani Doshi
Unoma Azuah
Vaikhari Aryat