THRICE OPPRESSED
NOT QUITE IN SEVENTH HEAVEN: Shanti Devi, who has six daughters and is pregnant with her seventh child, explains,
“My husband just doesn’t want to stop. He wants a son. I’m fed up but also helpless.”
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Sudharak Olwe (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based documentary photographer,
whose work has been featured in national publications and exhibited in Mumbai,
Delhi, Malmo (Sweden), Lisbon, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Washington.
He has drawn immense admiration and awe in the Indian subcontinent for revealing
the naked reality of life’s tragicomic social theater in 2005, he was one of the four awards for the
National Geographic’s “All Roads Photography Program”.
He was awarded Padma Shri
one of India’s highest civilian honors for his social work in 2016.
