Women rights activist, poet, and author Kamla Bhasin passed away at the age of 75 on September 25, 2021. She was suffering from cancer and pulmonary edema.

Bhasin was famous for being a part of ‘One Billion Rising’ campaign in South Asia among other important movements, she was a prominent voice in the field of the women’s rights movement in India and across South Asian countries.

Who was Kamla Bhasin?

• Kamla Bhasin born on April 24, 1946, was an Indian feminist activist, author, and poet. She was referred to as a stalwart in the field of women’s rights activism. Bhasin identified herself as a ‘social scientist by training’. In 1970, she began her work on the issues of gender, human development, education, and the media.

• In 2002, she resigned from her job at the United Nations (UN) to work on her best-known work ‘Sangat’ which is a feminist NGO that works with underprivileged women from rural and tribal communities.