Frontline feminist and founding member of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies died last week in Delhi at the age of 86. Mint Lounge carried these excellent edited excerpts of a conversation between Mazumdar and filmmaker Paromita Vohra from the latter’s documentary Unlimited Girls.
There are many great bits in the video. An example: “One of my favorite questions of the government was when the government uses the word ’empowerment of women’, I say ‘Who is empowering whom?'”
Elsewhere, too, there are some nice tributes. The Hindu notes: “In the introduction to her memoirs published by Zubaan in 2010, she described herself as a ‘women’s activist’, a ‘feminist’, a ‘trouble-maker’, but the one she liked best was that (sic) described herself as a ‘recorder and chronicler of the Indian Women’s Movement’ and a ‘grand-mother of women’s studies in South Asia’.”
For our money, we like best this super-chatty 2010 profile with the ghastly headline (get the pun, OMG) in Outlook.