This article was first published in the print edition of Manushi Journal. (Issue-33, Mar-Apr 1986)
IT is an honour to receive this award instituted in the memory of Smt. Chameli Devi Jain, a committed freedom fighter and worker for women’s rights. She represents the era when women, through their active
participation in India’s struggle for freedom, won significant battles for women’s freedom as well.
I would like to thank the Media Foundation for this gesture of support to Manushi which I see as an extension of the love and care that so many people have poured into Manushi ever since it started in 1979…