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In 1990 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) Award and in 1996 published A Matter of Time which explored different dimensions of women's experience in India. She believes her work is having an impact on women's lives:
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think over the years it is certainly making a difference.
And I think my books have been very empowering for women,
because I have more and more women coming and telling
me about how they felt kind of liberated after reading
because they felt that 'this is how I feel, this is what
I think', and I think they say it does give them courage.
And I also had a man who wrote me a long letter saying
that I never knew what women thought of until I read your
books. Hopefully it has opened up certain areas."
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