BY INDIRA JAISING Much is known about the life and times of Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA. I had the privilege of working for her and with her in the service of self-employed women, which gives me some confidence to speak about her and her work. I was always fascinated by the question: how does
INDIA has lost its gentle revolutionary who brought freedom for India’s poorest women. Ela Bhatt founded SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association) 50 years ago. She passed away last week. Inspired by Gandhi, she joined the Textile Labour Association (or the Mazdoor Mahajan). She said, &ls
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LARGE bundles of papers, files and registers lay scattered on the footpath opposite the three-storeyed premises of a Gandhian organisation, Majdoor Mahajan Sangh aka Textile Labour Association (TLA), in central Ahmedabad one morning in April 1981. The files belonged to the Self-Employed Women’
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