
Bhairavi: The Runaway, by Shivani urf Gaura Pant, has been translated from the Hindi for the first time in English by Priyanka Sarkar. On the eve of this book's launch, Arpita Das, founder-publisher of Yoda Press, sits down with Mrinal and Ira Pande, Shivani's daughters and esteemed writers, and with Priyanka Sarkar, to talk about Shivani's process of writing, her inspirations, how she carried the role of a writer in the 1970s and 1980s India and how much of an effect her resilient female characters have on young women even today. Bhairavi: The Runaway is the first book in the joint imprint of Simon and Schuster India and Yoda Press.