The Fifteen: How diverse women united to shape free India's Constitution

At a time when the Uniform Civil Code is being widely discussed, the book explores what the women in the Constituent Assembly thought of the idea

The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly

Author: Angellica Aribam & Akash Satyawali

Publisher: Hatchette

Pages: 310

Price: Rs 799

Hidden Figures, a Hollywood film released in 2016 was about the lives of three Black women mathematicians whose contribution to the launch of the American space capsule, Friendship 7, was seminal. The film describes their day-to-day struggles against discrimination, prejudice and other barriers that they overcame to become role models for many.

Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali have embarked on a similar project about the 15 women who were among the 299 people in the Indian Constituent