The feminist memoir for recovering good girls

Bad Daughter book by Sangeeta Pillai

Because good girls don’t change the world.

I’ve been called a Bad Daughter my entire life. Because I refused to follow the rules for good Indian girls.

Nothing could dim the fire in my belly – not my poor Mumbai slum childhood, not my violent alcoholic father and not even my mother’s brutal murder. I battled patriarchy. I chased my dreams. I moved to London and created a podcast and a platform to inspire other women to break the rules. But faced with my own debilitating trauma, I had to heal. By going back to my deepest spiritual roots in Kerala.

I hope my life journey propels you to chase your own feminist dreams.

Bad Daughter

You’re a Bad Daughter if...

You’re sick and tired of trying to be the Good Girl

You’ve wasted years trying to be the Good Daughter, the Good Sister, the Good Girlfriend, the Good Wife, the Good Mother, the Good Neighbour, the Good Workmate…

You’ve made yourself small, you’ve minimised yourself for far too long. And you’ve had enough.

You’ve learnt that being the Good Girl stops you from accessing your own power

You no longer need to hide yourself or contort yourself into painful shapes to fit the world’s idea of what women should be like.

You’re ready to unlearn a lifetime of conditioning

You’re ready to take time for you, to figure out what you want, who you are, what you want.

You can’t wait to tap into the explosive power of your fierce, female energy.

You know that you’re the Bad Daughter: powerful, potent, undeniable, unafraid.

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Press reviews for Sangeeta Pillai

 “Sangeeta Pillai is a one-woman powerhouse” – The Guardian


“Activist, writer and speaker Sangeeta Pillai is all about tackling taboos…” – The Huffington Post


“Unapologetically feminist…” – The Deccan Herald


“Fighting Indian patriarchy since age three. So reads the motto of Sangeeta Pillai…” – The Standard


“More power to you, Sangeeta…” – Anita Rani, BBC Radio


“Sangeeta Pillai is a leading voice for South Asian feminism.” – Brown Girl Magazine


“Pillai sensitively approaches typically taboo topics…” – The Guardian


“A boss podcaster and host of the award-winning Masala Podcast, Sangeeta is a feminist activist, who is breaking down taboos…” – The Metro


“Podcaster, activist and speaker, Sangeeta Pillai is all about tackling taboos…” – Cosmopolitan

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“I was always the Bad Daughter.
I was the rule breaker, the defiant one, the troublemaker.”

Sangeeta Pillai aged 3, in a black and white photo wearing a short cropped dress
Sangeeta has always been a feminist, even when she’d never heard of the word…

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