![]() She grew up around villages in India and it helped her form an understanding about women's issues in villages in India. Kamla Bhasin called herself 'The Midnight Generation', a reference to the generation of Indians born around the time of independence, 'at the stroke of the midnight hour.'. 2.2 Work at UN and subsequent founding of Sangat.She had always maintained that in order to usher effective change, sloganeering must be accompanied by community mobilization. She worked with underprivileged women from tribal and working communities, often using posters, plays and other non literary methods to get through to communities with low literacy rates. She believed in a form of advocacy that combines feminist theory and community action. in 2002, to work with Sangat, of which she was a founder member and adviser. She was also the South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the popular poem Azadi (Freedom) in a conference. She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. ![]() Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Rajasthan University, University of Münsterīorders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition (book) ![]() Shaheedanwali, Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, British India
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