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Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand' chronicles the life of an 80-year-old woman who slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi was once called a ‘force of nature’ by Salman Rushdie in 'The Half-Woman God'. Now through her tantalizing autobiography, ‘Me Laxmi, Me Hijra’, Laxmi just extrapolates on how that is true.

Whether it is providing medical services to the rural folk in the hills of Uttarakhand or translating works of English into Tamil and vice versa, these inspiring women who are all octogenarians and nonagenarians lead a more active life than most youngsters!