Over four immersive chapters, Oza unravels for the reader what she is discovering. The first is on consent, where Oza deals directly with the question of ‘false cases’ to understand the complicated stories behind them, through the case of a consensual inter-caste relationship that when discovered becomes framed as a rape case by the family of the woman.
A brief life history of this remarkable lady must be narrated here to understand how without professing to be a radical feminist in her ideas, the protagonist was very open-minded even while functioning within the domestic parameters of her existence.
On his return to India Jagat Murari spent several years at the Films Division in Bombay. While very few readers would have seen or remembered his films, this section of the book introduces a major theme of the book, his problems with his bureaucratic superiors.
Subsequent chapters present biographical and intellectual portraits of seminal figures in modern psychology, including Freud, Adler, Jung, Erikson, Maslow, Rogers, Piaget, Bandura, William James, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Shruthi Rao and Meera Iyer in their India in Triangles have explained in easy-to-understand language the main principles of triangulation, and how this method was used for mapping the Indian subcontinent during the nineteenth century.
The first chapter details Devaki’s family, her daily duties during vacation days, she being a supporting daughter for her parents, nursing her ailing father and helping her mother with household chores. The author also through interactions between Devaki and her grandmother outlines the gender roles as decided within the families and how Devaki as a young educated girl questioned some of them.