The status of women is how the society perceives a women and not what it should be. Women at every stage are deprived of opportunities because of their sexuality. This book is a small step towards the realization of the fragrance called woman and to accept the Kasturithat is the inherent qualityof a woman.
India is our motherland and we belong to it. It is high time that we learn to give our women respect and treat them with dignity they deserve. Women are the pillars of any society and the foundation stone of any family. Now they should be accepted as such with all their innate abilities, talents, qualitiesand more than that as 'Women' - a wonderful creation blessed with the power of creation and the power to reproduce and replicate.
I hope any small step towards the realization of this concept would bealong step in changing the mindset of all our self-acclaimed social gurus and custodians of dharma and fatwas in treating women as equal partners in the growth of the nation, family and children – an asset which cannot be treated lightly.

Mamta Mehrotra is the Administrative Head of D.A.V. Public School in Patna. She is an active worker fighting for the cause of women on various issues. As a counsellor for cases in domestic violence, she has worked in an NGO Surya Mahila Koshang.
She is a versatile writer. Many of her short stories have been published in Kadambini, local newspapers and other magazines of national repute. Besides this, she has been an editor of various magazines such as Samajik Parivesh and Vartman Sandarbha. She also writes columns on Human Rights for Ganadesh.
A Ph.D. on her works has been awarded and is to be published in 8 Indian languages.
Associated with S.C.E.R.T. (State Centre for Education Research and Training) she writes course books from class I‑IX in English. She has written several books in English and Hindi on Gender issues.
E-mail:
mamtamehrotra69@gmail.com