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Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. [2][3] She lived in New Delhi, India. [4] She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for ...
Subhadra Chauhan was born into a Rajput family in Nihalpur village, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. [6] She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls' School in Prayagraj where she was senior to and friends with Mahadevi Verma and passed the middle-school examination in 1919. She married Thakur Lakshman Singh Chauhan of Khandwa in 1919 when she was ...
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi -language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1] She has been also addressed as the Modern Meera. [2]
Savitribai Phule. Bust of Savitribai Phule. Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ) was one of the first female teachers in India, [5] a social reformer, and a poet. Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Nalini Bala Devi (1898–1977), Assamese poet. Nirupama Devi (1883–1951), novelist. Sneha Devi (1916–1990), writer of Assamese literature. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American poet, novelist, short story writer, author of The Mistress of Spices. Varsha Dixit, novelist.
Vedpal Deep and later Surinder Singh (1966–2021) Padma Sachdev (17 April 1940 – 4 August 2021) was an Indian poet and novelist. She was the first modern woman poet of the Dogri language. [1] She also wrote in Hindi. She published several poetry collections, including Meri Kavita Mere Geet (My Poems, My Songs), which won the Sahitya Akademi ...
Poet, Writer. Nationality. Indian. Education. MA in English literature, PhD, DLit. Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [2] She is known for her feminist poetry.
Easterine Kire. Easterine Kire is an Indian poet and author who currently lives in northern Norway. The majority of her writings are based in the lived realities of the people in Nagaland in north-east India. [1] Her motivation to write is summed up in this statement by her in an interview, "I felt we needed to create written Naga Literature.