Dupatta Podunga Thozhi (Wear your Dupatta, Friend) by Geetha Ilangovan
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Kavya, her own thozhi, her best friend since they were six years old, was lying in a hospital bed two streets away. Leukemia. The doctor had said the next forty-eight hours were critical. And Kavya’s last coherent whisper had been: “The book, Meera. The one where the girl wraps her dupatta around both of them in the rain. I never got to finish it.”
Essays cover themes like "chastity," menstruation, the "family woman" stereotype, and the lack of decision-making power for women in marriage. Empowerment: