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Antharjanam - Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman Book Review

Read this review of a book ‘Antharjanam’ written in Malayalam by a Namboodiri lady – Devaki Antharjanam, Nilayamgode and translated into English by Indira Menon and Radhika P Menon. If people thought that a woman born in a high society around 60 – 70 years back was a privileged one read the book of the autobiography or memoirs through which the life of a namboodiri lady from the time of birth is shown to the world. It mainly focuses in the lives of women and young girls of the author’s time and before.