What would you do to save yourself? In a sense this is exactly what manjula padmanabhan’s Harvest is asking.

				Prostitutes sell their bodies, yet the still own them. Jettu makes this point in Act I, sc. 3 (p. 33).

				Would you ever sell yourself to save your family, becoming the complete property to a rich investor?

				Would you ever buy someone simply as a means by which to get organs that would keep you alive?

				Such are the issues that Harvest tries to address. It is an important text in a world where individual human life is becoming less and less important.