Feminist Kamla Bhasin passed away

Renowned feminist activist Kamla Bhasin passed away on September 25, 2021. She was 75.

  • Kamla Bhasin was born in 1946 in Shahidanwaali village in Punjab (now in Pakistan).
  • Bhasin had joined the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1976 — a job she retired from in 2002.
  • In 2004, she set up Sangat, a South Asian Feminist Network. She was also the founder of women’s organisation Jagori.

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