Contents: 1. Introduction/Rita Kothari. 2. Entries from Vanamala's diary: (an account of a tragic decline)/Leelavati Munshi. 3. The jungle of words/Dhiruben Patel. 4. The saviour/Varsha Adalaja. 5. Is there colour?/Kundanika Kapadia. 6. Neither within parantheses nor without/Saroj Pathak. 7. I = Story/story = I/Suvarna. 8. Doors/Himanshi Shelat. 9. Seeds/Himanshi Shelat. 10. Humiliation/Bharti Dalal. 11. Indubhai/Anjali Khandawalla. 12. Shakti/Anjali Khandawalla. 13. Doormat/Ila Arab Mehta. 14. Heartburn/Bharti Dave. 15. Kalapani/Mona Patrawala. 16. The stairs/Chandra Shrimali. 17. Entries from Mira Yagnik's Diary/Bindu Bhatt. 18. Hasmukhbhabhi/Vinodini Neelkanth. 19. The transience of things/Vinodini Neelkanth.

"This anthology is not only about Gujarati women speak, but also what they don't. In a state that registers increasing cases of violence against women, what kind of truths does its literature embody?

If malestream writing in Gujarat seldom mirrors its everyday truths, do the women risk unpleasantness? Kothari's introduction builds upon such premises and leads the reader to a trajectory of women writers from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, starting with the journal entries of a dancer at the end of the nineteenth century, to the journal entries of an academic woman at the end of the twentieth. The wide range of stories and fictional excerpts show how Gujarati women inhabit their fictional worlds. The trajectory hints at an imperceptible shift from muffled voices to more candid ways of being, and yet it never loses completely the middle-class genteelness that characterizes literary discourses in Gujarat."