Suggesting that women are 'reshaping English' as Rushdie suggests, the author interviews 7 women writers to find out why they write in English, which cannot be neutral - Shashi Deshpande, the late Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Lakshmi Kannan, Sujatha Mathai, Anuradha Marwah-Roy and Mina Singh.