These poems are about the consuming fire of longing, in God's presence and absence, they reflect a year of journey, and considers life in all of its positive and negitive glory. The author has tried to walk the middle path between transparency and resistance, providing footnotes and longer notes to help the reader to find further information.
Features essays addressing the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English. This work adopts a method of textual and ethnographic reading.