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Book Review: On Wings of Butterflies

Author: Kavery Nambisan Publisher: Penguin Books India (P) Ltd ISBN:  0-14-302811-1 Pages: 253 The prologue: "To Chauvinists, male and female: you keep out of this".  The straightforwardness in the line says it all.Written by a woman author, the book talks about women and their hatred for men! Evita, a young Panjim girl sets out to unite womankind of the entire world, to fight against the opposites, men. Evita in her twenty's has seen the suffering of her mother, an eye-turner waitress in a local restaurant in morning and at night she has clients coming from all over the city! Scarred and marred by her mother's defenseless life, she decides to unite the women and fight the battle on its face.  Soon her idea of forming an organisation, WOMEN OR WOMEN (WOW), a single group  of world's largest minority, starts to take a shape as many show interest and start to join. Her group unites all sorts of women coming from various walks of life,perfunctory wives,