If you have a look at Google today, you
must've noticed a portrait of a gentle-looking lady with a stethoscope
around her neck, surrounded by hospital beds with women patients and
nurses looking after them. The lady is none other than Dr Rukhmabai Raut
also known as Rakhmabai Raut or simply Rukhmabai.
Rukhmabai Raut was one of British India's earliest practicing women doctors. Rukhmabai's life in colonial India is significant, especially when it comes to learning about consent, a term that dominates discourse everywhere.