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Once upon a time...there were decision-makers It's certainly common enough to hear, speak and discuss about 'agency', 'consent', 'control over our bodies', 'privilege', 'patriarchy' and so on. But how many of us are able to apply these concepts in this day and age?  With every generation some challenges stay constant, despite the overall atmosphere build up that 'change is here'. Is the change good though? And, what change are we talking about? Does it signal progress or a backslide? The dialogue continues. Now, imagine this scenario being discussed amongst the Nair women of Kakasherry Tharvadu  (ancestral house) in Manjoor village, nearly 100 years ago. In her debut novel, Drop of the Last Cloud , Sangeetha G focuses on the lives and times of the Kakasherry women, who were at the cusp of social and political transformation, that took place in pre-independent India. The novel opens to 1924, when floods ravaged Kerala and the birth of