Mountain Echoes

The conversations that have gone towards making the book a record of a ruminative journey into the past are based on memories of four Kumaoni women, now in their 80’s, who refuse to bow to patriarchal values and norms wholly, and managed to carve a niche for themselves within the traditional framework.

– Business Standard, Thursday, March 26, 1998

Mountain Echoes is a book of oral biography profiling the life and times of four extraordinary Kumaoni women. It examines the life of the household in Kumaon across the passage of the century, and records the transition into modernity