Najabai Sakharam Babar (renamed Shantabai Krishnaji Kamble after her marriage), was the first Dalit woman teacher in Solapur district.

The book was later translated into English by a Femina magazine editor called Shantabai Gokhale who struggled with the meaning of the title.

After consulting multiple dictionaries, the editor eventually decided to translate the context rather than the word, resulting in the English title, "The Story of My Tattered Life.

[7] The autobiography Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha by Dalit woman writer Shantabai Kamble, the protagonist of the story, Naja, bears the brunt of class, caste and gender.

Kamble, who belonged to the untouchable Mahar caste, endured several difficulties throughout her life, including humiliation at school, her workplace, and even at home.

In the book, she outlines how even as a teacher, she encountered hostility from dominant castes who threatened her to return home or risk being beaten up and sent back in humiliation.