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Padma Venkatraman

Climbing the Stairs

By Padma Venkatraman - Published 2008

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Fifteen-year-old Vidya lives in Bombay in British-occupied India. It is 1941, and while many other Brahmin girls are living cloistered, marriage-focused lives, Vidya has ...Read Review

Padma Venkatraman

Climbing the Stairs

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