About the Book: Smritichitre: The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife
Lakshmibai Tilak was born in 1868 into a strict Maharashtrian Brahmin family in
a village near Nashik. And at the age of eleven, she was married off to poet
Narayan Waman Tilak, a man much older than her. In Smritichitre, Lakshmibai
candidly describes her complex relationship with her husband—their constant
bickering over his disregard for material possessions, which quite often left
them penniless, and his bouts of intense rage in these moments. But at the core
of their relationship was their concern for society and the well-being of every
human being, irrespective of caste, class or