Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s

from The Bookshelf · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

India's first woman lawyer practiced, against the odds, in the 1920s. Novelist Sujata Massey used that woman as inspiration for her fictional character, Perveen Mistry, amateur sleuth in a country bursting with change. Sujata Massey speaks to Kate Evans about her own writing and the bookshelf that shaped her. Reading recommendations abound.

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