Ashapurna Debi was born in 1909. Her conservative family did not send her to school, but encouraged by her mother, she learnt to read and write on her own and published her first poem in the childrenâ
Yemuna Sunny is a social scientist and has been for more than a decade involved in examining social geography. She has worked in Eklavya and is a member of People's Research Society (PRS).
Manik Bandyopadhyay (birth name Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay, 19 May 1908–3 December 1956) is a major figure of twentieth-century Bengali literature. He authored 38 novels and 306 stories. His bes
Wandana Sonalkar was professor of women's and gender studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is the translator of, among others,We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkar Mov
