Bedekar wrote "Kalyanche Nishwas" (कळ्यांचे निःश्वास) --a collection of short stories—and "Hindolyawar" (हिंदोळ्यावर) --a novel—both in 1933 under the pen name "Vibhavari Shirurkar" (विभावरी शिरूरकर). In the two works, she discussed issues such as extramarital cohabitation, a woman's right to set up her own household alone, and dowry. The works were far too bold for the Indian society of the 1930s, and after their publication, there was a storm of outrage about them, they having been written by an unknown author under a pen name. (A few years later, before her marriage, Bedekar had revealed in a public speech that " 'Vibhavari Shirurkar' was me --Balutai Khare.")