Kamla Bhasin is not Just a Name but an Ideology

On 25 September 2021, as usual, I woke up in the morning to find the saddening news in my phone that a real star had left Indian soil to be permanently in the sky. She was our beloved Kamala Bhasin. I was doing my regular routine, but I felt a sign of pathos deep inside my heart. I could not overcome that problem even the next day. I started thinking, why do I have this feeling? She was neither my relative nor my friend. I do not know her in person, and I never talked to her. So then, why am I having the feeling of loss and mourning? As I always do in such cases to stop the waves of the mind, I started writing to clear my feeling of loss from my heart. As soon as I started writing, I realised that she was really someone very close to my heart as she was close to millions of girls and women in India as well as in South Asia. She was exactly not just a person, instead she epitomised a particular lifeview-an ideology. She observed, understood and protested not only against gender inequality, she also raised her voice to a high pitch against all kinds of injustice practised and has persisted over generations in our societies. When high intellect, infinite courage and a generous, beautiful heart meet, women like Kamla Bhasin come in being. In this writing, I will not narrate her contribution to Indian society in many different ways. I am pretty sure the future generation of various academic disciplines will research her life and work. I just want to share my own feeling about this great soul. I would like to introduce her to hundreds of women and students of my network who may have never heard her name

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