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Gita Ramaswamy is an Indian social activist and writer.




Early life


Gita Ramaswamy was born in 1953 to K.H. Ramaswamy (Kizhakemadam Harihara Ramaswamy) and Lakshmi Ramaswami in Sholapur, Maharashtra, India. She was the fourth of five daughters. She began her education in Bombay at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School. However, her family moved to Madras when she was nine years old, and stayed there till she was fifteen. In Madras, she studied at the Rosary Matriculation School in Santhome till she was fourteen.




Career


Ramaswamy became a grass-roots organizer and activist for women's rights and the rights of the poor while a student. She co-founded the Hyderabad Book Trust, a non-profit Telugu publishing collective. She has published books in both English and Telugu, as the sole author of India Stinking (2005), and as co-author of Taking Charge of Our Bodies (2004), On Their Own (2005), and The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (2016).
She has also translated Devulapalli Krishnamurthi’s autobiography Ooru, Vaada, Batuku into English as Life in Anantharam (2016). She also published an anthology of Gauri Lankesh’s writings in Telugu.




Works


Jeena Hai To Marna Seekho: The Life and Times of George Reddy
The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing
Here I Am and Other Stories (translation, original by P. Sathyavati)
Life in Anantharam (translation, original by Devulapalli Krishnamurti)
Taking Charge of Our Bodies: A Health Handbook for Women (with Veena Shatrugna)
On their own: a socio-legal investigation of inter-country adoption in India
India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh
The child and the law
Women and law
The Lambadas: a community besieged: a study on the relinquishment of Lambada girl babies in South Telangana
Nenu Communistuni (Telugu), Biography of C.K.Narayanareddy
Maakoddii candaalam (Telugu)
Land, Guns, Caste and Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary




References






External links


Hyderabad Book Trust

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Agama Hindu
• Daftar penerima penghargaan Padma Shri (2010–2019)
• Ramakrishna
• Daftar penerima penghargaan Padma Bhushan (1960–69)
• Gita Ramaswamy
• George Reddy
• Sonny Ramaswamy
• List of Telugu people
• Swami Satchidananda Saraswati
• Swami Vidya Prakashananda Giri
• Periyar
• S. R. Ramaswamy
• Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons
• Shripad Damodar Satwalekar