Mouna Lama

Defiance in the Domestic: Women's Agency against Patriarchy and Caste in Anjali Kajal's Ma Is Scared

This article examines Anjali Kajal’s short story “Ma Is Scared” (2023) through feminist, Dalit feminist, and subaltern frameworks to consider how a vernacular Hindi text reimagines the domestic sphere as a site of caste-inflected, gendered resistance. Set within a Dalit basti fam...