Rest in power, Sandhya Rao!
Meena Seshu and Laxmi Murthy pay tribute to feminist activist Sandhya Rao, who passed away on Saturday in Bangalore...
Category: Obituary
Trupti Shah (1962 – 2016) : A tribute
By Sahiyar Team The women’s movement, the environmental cause, the struggle for justice has lost a voice that never...
Remembering Fatema Mernissi, the magician among the Casablanca Dreamers
Shuba Chacko pays tribute to renowned Muslim feminist and sociologist, Fatema Mernissi by remembering an exciting feminist gathering organised...
Obituary: Tahira Mazhar Ali (1925-2015)
Pakistan’s legendary women’s rights campaigner Tahira Mazhar Ali passed away in Lahore on Monday. She was one of the...
Meera Kosambi (April 24, 1939 – February 26, 2015)
Uma Chakravarti reminisces about the historian and feminist scholar Dr Meera Kosambi who carved her own distinctive space within...
Kamala Maushi: Salute to a proud Devadasi
In memory of a proud Devadasi, a relentless activist who fought for sex workers rights, a natural leader and...
Obituary: Pravinaben Natubhai Patel (1935-2015)
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling...
Jasodhara Bagchi: Farewell to a phenomenal woman
Veteran feminist, academician and author, Jasodhara Bagchi, will remain an inspiration to many By Juhi Jain This is indeed...
Remembering Geeta Das
All India Progressive Women’s Association’s (AIPWA) honorary president Comrade Geeta Das passed away on 24th October at the age...