Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: India
About Kamla Bhasin
- Kamla Bhasin (born 24 April 1946) is an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist.
- Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focuses on gender, education, human development and the media.
- She lives in New Delhi, India.
- She is best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai.
- In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the popular poem Azadi (Freedom) in a conference.
- She is also the South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising. She resigned from her job at the U.N.
- in 2002, to work with Sangat, of which she is a founder member and Adviser.
- She believes in a form of advocacy that combines feminist theory and community action.
- She has 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 has always maintained that in order to usher effective change, sloganeering must be accompanied by community mobilization.
Read more at Wikipedia