Review of Aruna Roy’s ‘The Personal Is Political’ - Mainstream Weekly https://mainstreamweekly.net/article14856.html Aruna’s account of how we have to overcome our arrogance of a ‘let’s teach them attitude’, that literacy classes ignored a woman’s physical incapacity to study after a hard twelve-hour workday or to appreciate the wealth of oral stories and grassroot knowledge they had, is both compelling and invaluable... ‘the women taught us the politics of gender in the village, their understanding of power and oppression and how they sought liberation of it’. ... an insight on how this is possible for each one of us, provided one has the courage and the ability to strip oneself of fear of the unknown and an ego and all that we have been schooled.