Asian Women Writers’ Collective Anthology.

“The Asian Women Writers Collective (AWWC) published their first anthology, ‘Right of Way’, with The Women’s Press in 1989. During this period there was a core group of eight members in the organisation and most of them are represented in the anthology. The book consists of short stories and poems of which we have digitised the following: “Pedal Push” by Ravinder Randhawa, which deals with the themes of marriage, racism and independence; Leena Dhingra’s “The Debt”, follows final year film student Anjali Dutta, who travels to Bombay to work on a documentary film about rural development and soon discovers that the India she idealises is far from her deepest expectations; disability and the joys and sorrows of motherhood are the topics of the poem, “Baby Talk I” by Rahila Gupta; “The Nightmare” by Rukhsana Ahmad, explores a mother’s disillusionment after an unwanted abortion and unhappy marriage; “Blood Lust to Dust” by Rahila Gupta, is a poem dedicated to Balwant Kaur, an Asian woman who was murdered by her husband in front of her children at a South London refuge. The poem was read at the Balwant Kaur memorial campaign; and “The Traveller” by Meera Syal, discusses the concepts of autonomy and freedom.”

Source: ‘Right of Way – Book’, https://sadaa.co.uk/archive/literature/asian-women-writers-collective/right-of-way-book