About the Author
Anvay Ved is a writer who pays close attention to people, relationships and everyday life. He prepared for the UPSC Civil Services exam and later worked in corporate jobs. Along the way, he noticed how our families and workplaces are shaped by expectations that nobody writes down but almost everyone follows.
His debut book, The Mother We Worship. The Woman We Ignore. grew out of a question that stayed with him: how can a society that reveres the feminine in so many ways continue to overlook the experiences of women in everyday life?
Through his writing, Anvay hopes to encourage readers to pause, question familiar beliefs, and begin honest conversations about the contradictions within our homes and society.
In His Own Words
This is my first book. I did not write it as an expert standing above the subject. I wrote it as someone who has spent years trying to understand how our society actually works, first through serious study and then through everyday working life.
That understanding began with my preparation for the UPSC Civil Services examination. The preparation demanded far more than memorising facts. It meant studying Indian society in depth, including its history, its social structures, its laws and the constitutional values we promise one another. After all that reading, I kept asking why the gap between those values and everyday reality is still so wide. It trained me to look at an issue from every side, to separate evidence from assumption, and to notice patterns that stay hidden when we look at only one family or one story.
My years in corporate environments gave me a different kind of education. I worked alongside people from many regions, backgrounds, and walks of life, and I saw how the expectations we carry from home follow us into our workplaces. I noticed who gets heard in a meeting, who is expected to adjust, and who quietly carries responsibilities at home that no one at work ever sees.
Between the structured study of society and the lived reality of working life, one question kept returning to me: how can a culture that worships the feminine so deeply still overlook the women living right beside us? The Mother We Worship. The Woman We Ignore. is my honest attempt to answer it.
I do not claim to have every answer. What I hope to offer is a simple and honest mirror that helps readers pause, question what feels familiar, and begin the conversations that are long overdue in our homes.
True change is never forced by outward commands, it awakens quietly within our own homes when we finally choose to see the truth.