From Harappan bangles to Navratri, Dasara and Diwali, discover who first created India's festivals. The women who adorned their homes and bodies may have been the original priestesses.

Long before the lone goddess, there were sisters in sevens and sixty-fours: the Krittikas, the Matrikas, the Yoginis. Step into a world where women gathered on their own terms, and men came and went.

Why does Kali stick out her tongue: shame, or rage? Meet the outspoken, untamed goddesses of the Vedas and the Puranas, and learn why the "bad girl" is one of mythology's oldest ideas.

Gods stand flanked by two goddesses in temple art. What is the secret behind this ancient image? Explore the forgotten marriage customs of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, where the rules of love and kinship were never fixed.

Is she truly the ideal woman of Hindu tradition? Through Ahalya, Kunti, Draupadi and Amba, uncover the hidden desires, choices and anger behind the myth of the obedient wife.

Bollywood gives its heroines swords, but only until they marry. Discover the older, wilder tales of Draupadi and Durga, and what the sword really meant for women in myth.

Did the idea of women's freedom really arrive from the West? A thought-provoking finale that looks to India's own stories, and to the belief that a woman is divine when she sees the divinity in men, and men when they see it in her.