Lady Doctors is secretly back home in

is secretly back home in Chicago for the first time in a decade

bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa

Kavata has spent her life suffocated by political machinations

and the echo of forgotten lives

which involves luxury

Lady Doctors is secretly back home inAt a time when medicine is a highly sought after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how firmly they were bound in fetters of family, caste and society, and how fiercely they fought to escape, needs to be told. In Lady Doctors, Kavitha Rao unearths the extraordinary stories of six women from the 1860s to the 1930s, who defied the idea that they were unfit for medicine by virtue of their