Kamla Patel
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Kamla Patel
Kamla Patel was born in 1912 and spent her early years in Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad. She participated in the civil disobedience movement and later in Gandhi's constructive programme. In 1944 she joined the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust in Bombay. After Indian Independence in 1947 she was invited by Mridula Sarabhai to join the Organisation for Recovery of Abducted Women and was with her till 1950. Subsequently, she worked in the Khadi and Village Industries Commission till 1968. She died in 1992.
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Ashok Khandelwal
Ashok Khandelwal is a right based social worker and is currently associated with Right to Food Campaign. He is also working as Rajasthan State Adviser to Supreme Court Commissioners. He studied eco
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Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca is a novelist and journalist. Her two novels – State of War (1988) and Twice Blessed (1992) – are considered classics of modern Philippine literature. She interviewed an
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Y.B. Satyanarayana
Dr Y.B. Satyanarayana has a doctorate in chemistry and was the principal of a leading college in Hyderabad for twenty-five years. He is involved in active work with Dalits, and is co-founder of the
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Saraladebi Chaudhurani
Saralabebi Chaudhurani (9 September 1872 – 18 August 1945) was a social reformer who founded the first women's organization in India called the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910.
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Kaliprasanna Sinha
Kaliprasanna Sinha (23 February 1840 - 24 July 1870) was a Bengali author and playwright.
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Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.