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On Being with Krista Tippett
A short story focusing on a young girl, Uma, who is taught to read and write but loses her notebook after marriage, highlighting the inequities faced by women.
And there's another base similar story. Again, it's only a few pages long, it's called the notebook.
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Episode: [Unedited] Anita Desai with Krista Tippett
A short story focusing on a young girl, Uma, who is taught to read and write but loses her notebook after marriage, highlighting the inequities faced by women.
And there's another base similar story. Again, it's only a few pages long, it's called the notebook.
And to go into the story with these lines, Uma never had a notebook again. The notebook of her husband on the other hand went down accumulating, designing dissertations and thorny theories. There was no one to seize it from him and destroy it for the benefit of mankind.