Down to the Image: Fiction as Feminist Critique in the Arena of Reproductive Autonomy

by Manasee Palshikar (nadi)

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Manasee Palshikar (nadi) is an MBBS doctor whose services are used mainly by working class women.
nadi has an MA in Gender, Culture and Development, from the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Pune University.
She has done a course in Screenplay writing at the Film and Television Institute of India(FTII), Pune. Her novel Sutak was received warmly.

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