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{{Infobox Author|birth_place=[[Lahore]]|occupation=Journalist|nationality=Indian|language=English|notableworks=Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi, Breaking News|partner=D.R. Mankekar|birth_date=1928|death_date=2018}}

'''Kamla Mankekar''' ({{birth-date|1928}}<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|publisher=Rupa Publications India|year=2014|isbn=9788129131201|location=New Delhi|pages=14}}</ref>–2018){{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}) was an Indian journalist, author, and social activist. She is best known as one of the early female journalists in the independent India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/review-of-breaking-news-a-woman-in-a-mans-world/article6748684.ece|title=Keepers of the keys|last=Sharma|first=Kalpana|date=2015-01-03|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2018-12-23|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/kamla-mankekar-launches-her-book-breaking-news/article6334995.ece|title=The power of the pen then…|last=Choudhary|first=Karan|date=2014-08-20|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-12-23|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":4" />

== Life and career ==
Kamla Mankekar was born in [[Lahore]], [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]] (currently in [[Pakistan]]), the daughter of Lilavati and Harbans Lal.<ref name=":3" /> Her family fled [[West Punjab]] for India as refugees during [[Partition of India|Partition]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/a-lady-on-grub-street/|title=A Lady on Grub Street|date=2015-04-04|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref>

In [[Delhi]], she studied at the refugee camp college, and took evening postgraduate classes in journalism.<ref name=":4" />

Mankekar started her career as writer, columnist, and sub-editor for the ''[[Indian News Chronicle]]'',<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|publisher=Rupa Publications India|year=2014|isbn=9788129131201|location=New Delhi|pages=10}}</ref> In 1950, she started working for ''[[The Times of India]]'', where she was a writer, sub-editor, and film critic.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" /> She later worked at ''[[The Indian Express]]'' for five years.<ref name=":1" /> She eventually went on to work as a freelance journalist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://rupapublications.co.in/authors/kamla-mankekar/|title=Kamla Mankekar|website=Rupa Publications|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref>

In 1958, she married D.R. Mankekar, author and former editor of both ''The Indian Express'' and ''The Times of India''.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal|date=June 30, 1977|title=Book extract: Decline And Fall Of Indira Gandhi by D.R. Mankekar|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19770630-book-extract-decline-and-fall-of-indira-gandhi-by-d.r.-mankekar-823804-2014-08-22|journal=[[India Today]]}}</ref> They would go on to co-author the book ''Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi''.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

An active member of civil society, she helped found the [[Consumer Guidance Society of India|Consumer Guidance Society]] in Bombay, and was a long-time member of the [[All India Women's Conference]].<ref name=":1" /> She was also the first chairperson of the Delhi State Commission for Women,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> a member of India's [[National Integration Council]],<ref name=":1" /> and on India's film censor board.<ref name=":0" />

In the 1960s, she headed the public relations department of [[Tata Group|Rallis India Ltd.]]<ref name=":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''.<ref name=":0" />

After the death of her husband, she moved to [[California]] to be near her children.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" />

== Works ==
* ''Abortion: A Social Dilemma'' (1973)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/abortion-a-social-dilemma/oclc/732139|title=Abortion: a social dilemma.|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=1973|publisher=Vikas Pub. House|isbn=9780706902631|location=Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Voluntary Effort in Family Planning: A Brief History'' (1974)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/voluntary-effort-in-family-planning-a-brief-history/oclc/1501807|title=Voluntary effort in family planning: a brief history|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=1974|publisher=Abhinav Publications|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Women in India'' (1975)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-in-india/oclc/6447993|title=Women in India|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|last2=Central Institute of Research and Training in Public Co-operation|date=1975|publisher=Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi'' (1977, with D.R. Mankekar)<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/decline-and-fall-of-indira-gandhi/oclc/255889915|title=Decline and fall of Indira Gandhi|last=Mankekar|first=Dinker R|last2=Mankekar|first2=Kamla|date=1977|publisher=Vision Books|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Nagendra Singh, A Many Splendoured Life'' (1998)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/nagendra-singh-a-many-splendoured-life/oclc/39291215|title=Nagendra Singh, a many splendoured life|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|last2=India|last3=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|last4=Publications Division|date=1998|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|isbn=9788123006123|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance'' (2002, with Sushila Nayar)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-pioneers-in-indias-renaissance-as-i-remember-her-contributions-from-eminent-women-of-present-day-india/oclc/50719112|title=Women pioneers in India's renaissance, as I remember her: contributions from eminent women of present-day India|last=Nayar|first=Sushila|last2=Mankekar|first2=Kamla|date=2002|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=9788123737669|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Culture and Religious Traditions in Temples of Goa'' (2004)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/culture-and-religious-traditions-in-temples-of-goa/oclc/60392445|title=Culture and religious traditions in temples of Goa|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=2004|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|isbn=9788123011615|location=New Delhi|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/breaking-news-a-woman-in-a-mans-world/oclc/894476694|title=Breaking news: a woman in a man's world|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=2014|isbn=9788129131201|language=en}}</ref>

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