I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." In an extended essay - which the title of our piece is named after - published in 1929, Virginia Woolf makes a profound argument that all work of literature is indeed a male construct. The evidence comes across while scanning through the list of bestsellers and prizewinners.

Aqui Thami, artist and activist who co-founded Bombay Underground and Dharavi Art Room has been travelling to various parts of the country with a set of books - it was called the Sister Library, and set up intimate spaces for reading the work of women authors. Her latest project is turning this entity into a permanent space, which Thami is trying to concretise through a fundraiser for '80 lakh on Milaap, a crowdsourcing platform. Edited excerpts from an interview.