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These seemingly disconnected\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanecdotes haunted Kannabiran, eventually revealing the pattern of women's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elived realities in the early twentieth century and inspiring her to write Pankaja, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Pankaja, Kannabiran paints a vivid portrait of what it meant to be an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eupper-caste Hindu woman in India at the time. Pankaja's life and the lives of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher women friends and family members are all shaped by the institution of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarriage; limited by the norm of wifely duty. Pankaja's mother Rajamma faces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eundue criticism from society after she is widowed. Pankaja's sister Pattamma, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho is widowed at a young age is branded a bad omen and shunned at social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoccasions. 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