Aditi Sarkar
Historian and writer exploring voice, agency, and identity among women in post-colonial India.
BA History (Hons), Miranda House · MA History, Lady Shri Ram College · University of Delhi
Historian and writer exploring voice, agency, and identity among women in post-colonial India.
BA History (Hons), Miranda House · MA History, Lady Shri Ram College · University of Delhi
I study the past to understand whose stories got told — and whose didn't. My work centres on the voices of suburban women in India whose lives shaped history but rarely entered the archive. This is my orange garden: a place to grow those ideas in the open.
More about me →Ideas at every stage, growing in the open.
What interviews with middle-aged women revealed about agency, self-fashioning, and invisible histories.
Rethinking Western feminist frameworks through the lives of women in post-colonial India.
Why school curricula still erase women's agency, and what a better model might look like.
Essays, fiction, and reviews. New work coming soon.
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Read on Substack"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Simone de Beauvoir