Mahe Jabeen

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Mahe Jabeen
Born	1961 (age 62–63) Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India

Mahe Jabeen (born 1961) is an Indian poet, lawyer and minority rights activist, and a winner of the Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva award for her social service.

Early life

Maha Jabeen Mohammed, better known as Mahe Jabeen was born in 1961 in

family. Her father was a District court lawyer. Her mother worked as part-time teacher in Government social welfare hostel. Faced with poverty, she got elementary education from Christian missionary school with the aid from poor children fund.

Academics

She got her undergraduate with specialization in child psychology from

, Hyderabad in 2002.

Human rights activist

Jabeen is program secretary of the

and advice and family counseling program Chetana for women through Doordarshan, the Government TV channel. Mahe also campaigns for the effective implementation of Child Labor (Abolition) Laws. With coordination with the office of the State Labor Commissioner in identifying the child labor in urban spaces, she organizes awareness talks and publishes the articles in media.

Writer

She published several poems in the publications of Kendreya Sahitya Akademi. Her poems were also included in Neeli Meghalu, a feminist poetry anthology edited by Volga and other authors in 1995. Her themes include gender discrimination, human rights, ethnic studies, peoples movements, Muslim and naxal minority problems and feminism. Besides writing poems, she writes articles on these issues for various Indian magazines. One of her poems, ‘street children’ is included in the curriculum for class X by the Board of Secondary Education in Andhra Pradesh State

Awards

• Telugu Bhasha Puraskaram in 2009 from Adhikara Bhasha Sangham of Andhra Pradesh State Government, India.
• Stree Shakti Puraskar
  Kannagi award 2008 from the Government of India.
• Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award from the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India for the year 2007 for working on child rights issues in India for more than a decade.

References

• "Indian Poetry: Modernism and After" by Sacchidanadhan, Published by Sahitya Akademi, 2001,
  ISBN 978-81-260-1092-9
  , pages 239-240
• "Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-century Telugu Poetry from India" by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Published by Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2003,
  ISBN 978-0-299-17704-1
  , pages 57–66

External links

• Tragedy of Women
• Mahe Jabeen's background
• Mahe Jabeen's Awards
• Mahe Jabeen's kavita
• Mahe Jabeen's English poems at kavitayan