Kamla Mankekar
Kamla Mankekar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1928 Lahore |
| Died | 2018 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Notable works | Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi, Breaking News |
| Partner | D.R. Mankekar |
Kamla Mankekar (1928–2018)[1] was an Indian journalist, author, and social activist. She is best known as one of the early female journalists in the independent India.[2][3][4]
Life and career
Kamla Mankekar was born in Lahore, British India (currently in Pakistan), the daughter of Lilavati and Harbans Lal.[5] Her family fled West Punjab for India as refugees during Partition.[4]
In Delhi, she studied at the refugee camp college, and took evening postgraduate classes in journalism.[4]
Mankekar started her career as writer, columnist, and sub-editor for the Indian News Chronicle,[4][6] In 1950, she started working for The Times of India, where she was a writer, sub-editor, and film critic.[4][7] She later worked at The Indian Express for five years.[7] She eventually went on to work as a freelance journalist.[7]
In 1958, she married D.R. Mankekar, author and former editor of both The Indian Express and The Times of India.[4][7][8] They would go on to co-author the book Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi.[7][9]
An active member of civil society, she helped found the Consumer Guidance Society in Bombay, and was a long-time member of the All India Women's Conference.[7][1] She was also the first chairperson of the Delhi State Commission for Women,[2][7] a member of India's National Integration Council,[7] and on India's film censor board.[2]
In the 1960s, she headed the public relations department of Rallis India Ltd.[4]
She wrote about her experiences as a pioneering Indian female journalist in her 2014 memoir, Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World.[2][1]
After the death of her husband, she moved to California to be near her children.[4][7]
Works
- Abortion: A Social Dilemma (1973)[10][1]
- Voluntary Effort in Family Planning: A Brief History (1974)[11]
- Women in India (1975)[12]
- Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi (1977, with D.R. Mankekar)[9]
- Nagendra Singh, A Many Splendoured Life (1998)[13]
- Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance (2002, with Sushila Nayar)[14]
- Culture and Religious Traditions in Temples of Goa (2004)[15]
- Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World (2014)[16]
References
- ^ ISSN 0049-0857.
- ^ ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "A Lady on Grub Street". The Indian Express. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ISBN 9788129131201.
- ISBN 9788129131201.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kamla Mankekar". Rupa Publications. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "Book extract: Decline And Fall Of Indira Gandhi by D.R. Mankekar". India Today. 30 June 1977.
- ^ OCLC 255889915.
- OCLC 732139.
- OCLC 1501807.
- OCLC 6447993.
- OCLC 39291215.
- OCLC 50719112.
- OCLC 60392445.
- OCLC 894476694.
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