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Usha Rao-Monari (born 1959), economist and non-fiction writer; Santha Rama Rau (1923–2009), Indian-American novelist, playwright; Rashid-un-Nisa (1855 – 1929), the first Indian women Urdu novelist, known for her first Novel Islah un Nisa. Nuchhungi Renthlei (1914–2002), poet, singer, school teacher, women's rights activist
Susie Tharu (born 1943) is an Indian writer, publisher, professor, editor and women's activist. [9] Throughout her career and the founding of several women's activist organizations, Tharu has helped to highlight those issues in India.
Indian women science writers (26 P) E. ... Indian social sciences writers (2 C, 124 P) T. Indian technology writers (63 P)
Neera Desai, The Making of a Feminist, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2 (1995) Neera Desai, Traversing through Gendered Spaces: Insights from Women's Narratives, in Sujata Patel and Krishna Raj (eds), Thinking Social Science in India: Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner (New Delhi: Sage, 2002). Another version was published in Gujarati in 1997.
Sithara S. (born 1972) is an Indian feminist writer in Malayalam from Kerala. [1] In her short stories and novels she has highlighted women's issues, gender conflict and lesbian rights . [ 2 ] In 2004 she won Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for her contributions to Indian literature [ 3 ] She is also a translator from Malayalam to English ...
Anuradha Sarma Pujari (born 1964) has been called "one of the most popular writers of this generation", and her work described as traversing "the varied textures of human conflict" and covering the tension between the society and the individual including explorations of femininity and "the gaps that exist between people in a relationship".
She returned to India and was one of the founders of an anti-violence group called the Forum Against Rape. In 1988, she became a women's studies lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Later she earned a PhD from the SNDT Women's University, [2] and became head of the women's studies department at the Tata Institute. [3]
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises [1] in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy .