Dehradun, Feb. 16 -- Ruby Gupta & Gita Sahgal in conversation

Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 15 Feb: In a packed auditorium on 14 February at Antara, a senior living facility in Dehradun, novelist Ruby Gupta read from her latest collection of short stories, Love and Crime and discussed three of her novels, A Degree in Death, No Illusions in Xanadu and The Liefeng Pagoda with feminist, human-rights advocate, Gita Sahgal.

Professor Ruby Gupta, who is Head of Department of Humanities at the Indian Military Academy and has written ten books on diverse subjects, discussed the constraints as well as the pleasures of her work. Reading a passage about a growing attraction between an older woman and a younger man, she acknowledged that women wri...