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Janaye Kirtikar

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Janaye Kirtikar is a Marathi Indian and Pākehā writer from Upper Hutt, based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She’s working towards her Master of Arts in English Literature at Te Herenga Waka. Her research centres on Indian women’s literature about the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan, and explores bodily representations of women’s trauma and memory.

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