This book is the result of a
collaboration among Elkunchwar, his friend Girish Gandhi of Rashtrabhasha
Prachar Samitee if Nagpu, and over a dozen outstanding female contributors to
contemporary Indian theatre. First published in Marathi—either in the original
or in translation—in Smita Smriti, an annual tribute to the late film actress
Smita Patil, the articles were serialized by Sruti, the English language
performing arts monthly in 2017, edited them by V Ramnarayanm the publisher of
this book