“Whatever it is, the story you tell can make all the difference.”
What would you do today if you had to fight for your life tomorrow?
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
I Kick and I Fly is an action-packed, shocking, and triumphant story of courage and freedom. On the outskirts of the Red-Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex trade to repay his loans.
When a hostel owner presents her the opportunity to practice kung fu, she learns that her body isn't an object to be commodified. A competition takes Heera to USA, where she pieces together the whereabouts of her missing best friend and takes the ultimate risk to mount a daring mission.
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Priya and the Wolves
Text by Ruchira Gupta
Art by Melanconnie, Production by R. Devineni
and written by Ruchira Gupta
Set during India’s great migration amidst the Covid lockdown, the comic is a reimagining of the the fairytale, Red Riding Hood. Predators prey on little girls walking home in search of food and shelter. Read how Priya outfoxes the wolves.
My Forbesganj Garden
Introduction by Gloria Steinem
Art and text by Ruchira Gupta
Forbesganj is a small agricultural town on the border of Nepal in the Himalayan foothills. My Forbesganj paintings tell the tales of everyday life inside my family home and in the village outside. Some that I witnessed and some I was told over the years.
चिट्ठियाँ रेणु की भाई बिरजू को
(Chitthiyan Renu Ki Bhai Birjoo Ko)
Introduced and edited by Vidyasagar Gupta, Prayag Shukla and Ruchira Gupta
This book is a collection of unpublished letters by one of India’s greatest modern Hindi storytellers -Phanishwarnath Renu. The letters are written to Ruchira’s uncle, Birju Babu, a mill-owner deeply connected with the Gandhian-socialist ideology. They are a unique account of the democratic socialist movement in India and Nepal.
As if Women Matter
Activist Ruchira Gupta has chosen from a lifetime of Gloria Steinem’s writings those essays that reach across time, continents, and cultures. This book is part of a much larger global rebellion. In its pages, you will find ideas, outrage, seriousness, laughter -- and a friend. Ruchira introduces and contextualizes each essay in our time.
वजूद औरत का
A collection of Gloria Steineme’s essays in Hindi edited by Ruchira Gupta
दुनिया की प्रतिष्ठित नारीवादी लेखिका ग्लोरिया स्टायनेम ने अपने कुछ शुरुआती साल भारत में बिताए और इस दौरान वे गाँधीवादी विचार से प्रभावित हुईं. 'वजूद औरत का’ में, ग्लोरिया स्टायनेम और एक्टिविस्ट रुचिरा गुप्ता ने साथ मिलकर ग्लोरिया के कुछ अभूतपूर्व निबन्धों को प्रस्तुत किया है। इस संग्रह में आपको नए विचार, ग़ुस्सा,गम्भीरता और हँसी और एक दोस्त, सबकुछ मिलेगा।
River of Flesh and Other Stories
River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers—Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.
Author’s Note
Take a minute to read my note about why I wrote I Kick and I Fly. If you find some helpful ideas and clues, do order the book and share its details on social media. I wrote this book for you.
