This study attempts to set the phenomenon in the region of five women heads of state - Khalida Zia (Bangladesh), Indira Gandhi (India), Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan), Srimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Kumaratunga (Sri Lanka) - of the seven countries of South Asia in perspective...(see full in book...)
“It was the sea that gave us everything to enable us to live our lives. It was the sea that took all that away and ultimately it is to the sea that we have to return to take up our lives again.”