Welcome to the femoir: bestselling books that celebrate female success

Anne-Marie Evans, The Conversation

· May 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

In a new book, Nalini Jameela breaks taboos and writes about her romantic encounters as a sex worker

Nalini Jameela

· May 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s prison diary offers an intimate slice of India’s freedom struggle

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

· Apr 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

This devastating book by a palliative care specialist is necessary reading to understand death

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Mar 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This book could have told a brilliant story of how India’s secular narrative was changed. It doesn’t

Saif Mahmood

· Mar 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

On the road with Rajiv Gandhi (who often drove his car himself): A journalist remembers

Suman Chattopadhyay

· Feb 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Just by being this person very loudly, I am breaking down hierarchies’: Gurmehar Kaur

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form

Apoorva Sripathi

· Feb 11, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘When you write about a dead person you loved, you must tell their version too’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘How could she fight for the country’s freedom but not her own?’ A mini graphic memoir

Kruttika Susarla

· Jan 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

How do you write about your own ‘madness and melancholia’ when you aren’t sure if it is behind you?

Divya Guha

· Jan 14, 2018 · 03:30 pm

‘I wrote for non-Indian readers, but many Indian readers did not know these things about caste’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

This memoir may be the most difficult one you’ll read. It will break your heart

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

Lucky

Scroll Staff

· Jan 01, 2018 · 12:50 pm

‘I want to rock the boat and I know that the boat desperately wants to be rocked’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Dec 31, 2017 · 07:00 am

Shobhaa De is turning 70 in her usual manner. By writing an irreverent book about it

Shobhaa Dé

· Dec 20, 2017 · 08:30 am

A Pakistani travel writer’s visit to his family’s hometown in India became a memoir of Partition

Salman Rashid

· Dec 15, 2017 · 08:30 am

How do you mourn a father you can barely forgive? A searing memoir on living with mental illness

Gayathri Prabhu

· Dec 11, 2017 · 08:30 am

Valson Thampu’s memoir of running St Stephen’s College is as stormy as his days as principal there

Nipun Malhotra

· Dec 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘My MBA degree from India had taught me nothing when it came to working in retail in America’

Deepak Singh

· Nov 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm