An extraordinary true story of Anant Khare who appeared to be an ordinary drawing teacher living and working near Pune at the turn of the century He decided that his contribution to the nationalist movement would be to ensure that his daughters were educated to the highest level By the twenties his daughters were independent single career women at a time when their peers had been married by the age of ten His wife too was running a flourishing dairy Everyone was successful Yet Kharemaster felt inadequate against his better-educated daughters and sons all adept in a world seemingly out of his reach About The Author Vibhavari Shirurkar was the pen name of Malatibai Bedekar 1905-2000 She graduated from Karve University at the age of seventeen and went on to do her Ph D in Sanskrit She was a distinguished writer and her main focus was on womens issues and social oppression