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Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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India

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She started writing in the 1970s Marathi short stories and one-act plays, some of which pertain to the contemporary change in the role of women in Marathi-speaking (and Indian) society, economic and intellectual freedom of women, and assertion of women's rights.

The following are some of Patil's works:

• Deepagriha Ani Samudrapakshi (दीपगृह आणि समुद्रपक्षी) (एकांकिका)
• Phakta Ek Warsha Teen Mahine (फक्त एक वर्ष तीन महिने)
• Gulam Ani Itar Katha (गुलाम आणि इतर कथा)
• Jamunake Tir (जमुनाके तीर) (1968)
• Pakshiteerth (पक्षीतीर्थ) (एकांकिका)
• Utarati Unhe (उतरती उन्हं)
• Namarda (नामर्द)
• Pankha (पंख)
• Sanai (सनई)