Kamla Mankekar (Template:Birth-date[1]–2018)Template:Citation needed) 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.[1] 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][5] In 1950, she started working for The Times of India, where she was a writer, sub-editor, and film critic.[4][6] She later worked at The Indian Express for five years.[6] She eventually went on to work as a freelance journalist.[6]
In 1958, she married D.R. Mankekar, author and former editor of both The Indian Express and The Times of India.[4][6][7] They would go on to co-author the book Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi.[6][8]
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.[6] She was also the first chairperson of the Delhi State Commission for Women,[2][6] a member of India's National Integration Council,[6] 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]
After the death of her husband, she moved to California to be near her children.[4][6]
Works
- Abortion: A Social Dilemma (1973)[9]
- Voluntary Effort in Family Planning: A Brief History (1974)[10]
- Women in India (1975)[11]
- Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi (1977, with D.R. Mankekar)[8]
- Nagendra Singh, A Many Splendoured Life (1998)[12]
- Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance (2002, with Sushila Nayar)[13]
- Culture and Religious Traditions in Temples of Goa (2004)[14]
- Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World (2014)[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Rupa Publications India(2014). ISBN 9788129131201
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Keepers of the keys. The Hindu(2015-01-03). Retrieved 2018-12-23.
- ↑ The power of the pen then…. The Hindu(2014-08-20). Retrieved 2018-12-23.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 A Lady on Grub Street. The Indian Express(2015-04-04). Retrieved 2018-12-23.
- ↑ Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Rupa Publications India(2014). ISBN 9788129131201
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Kamla Mankekar. Rupa Publications. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
- ↑ Book extract: Decline And Fall Of Indira Gandhi by D.R. Mankekar. India Today({Template:Date).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Decline and fall of Indira Gandhi{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Vision Books(1977)
- ↑ Abortion: a social dilemma.{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Vikas Pub. House(1973). ISBN 9780706902631
- ↑ Voluntary effort in family planning: a brief history{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Abhinav Publications(1974)
- ↑ Women in India{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation(1975)
- ↑ Nagendra Singh, a many splendoured life{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India(1998). ISBN 9788123006123
- ↑ Women pioneers in India's renaissance, as I remember her: contributions from eminent women of present-day India{{#if:Nayar|, Nayar}. National Book Trust, India(2002). ISBN 9788123737669
- ↑ Culture and religious traditions in temples of Goa{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India(2004). ISBN 9788123011615
- ↑ Breaking news: a woman in a man's world{{#if:Mankekar|, Mankekar}(2014). ISBN 9788129131201