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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Maïna Kataki''', née Juliette Pierre-Marie and nicknamed Nishtatai<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/Passageto-India/articleshow/1024060.cms|title=Passage to India|date=February 18, 2005|publisher=[[Times of India]]|accessdate=1 September 2012}}</ref> (1923 – 20 November 2011 in [[Pune]], [[India]]) was a French-born feminist author based in Pune, India.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_nishtatai-french-teacher-and-social-worker-from-pune-no-more_1619357|title=Nishtatai, french teacher and social worker from Pune, no more|date=November 30, 2011|work=[[Daily News and Analysis]]|accessdate=1 September 2012}}</ref> She is known in the field of [[postcolonial]] foreign [[Charity (practice)|charity]] activities in [[India]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Kataki was born in [[Paris]]. She then moved to Pune in 1970 after being attracted to the [[spirituality|spiritual]] aspects of [[Indian culture]]. <br />
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She became an Indian citizen in 1976.<ref name="journal">Kataki, M (1992) ''La joie d'Être: journal en Inde'', Editions Beauchesne, {{ISBN|2-7010-1236-8}}</ref> where she taught at the university level in slums and villages where she founded the ''Samarpan [[Ashram]]'' in 1983.<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
Kataki is the author of ''La Joie d'Être'',<ref name=journal/> which is an autobiographical account of ''L'Inde Secrète des Villages.'' It details a young woman's attempt at reforming village practices in relation to medicine.<ref>Kataki, M (2003) ''L'Inde secrète des villages'', Editions Saint-Augustin, {{ISBN|2-940343-00-4}}</ref> She also wrote ''Femme de Pierre ou Femme de Chair'' where she expressed her views on feminism.<ref><br />
Kataki, M. (2002) ''Femme de pierre ou femme de chair'', J.C. Limasset</ref><br />
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