breaker" for her diaries revealed that she maintained contacts with the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement like Gopalkrishna Gokhale, Sarala Devi and Lala Lajpat Rai. Nivedita Menon – feminist and academic. Author of Seeing like a Feminist. Nandini Sahu – eco-feministic Indian English poet and academic. Author of Sita (A poem). Ruth Vanita – academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, British and South Asian literary history. She founded the magazine Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society devoted to feminism as well as to gender studies and activism in 1978 with Madhu Kishwar. Ramarao Indira – academic, critic, rationalist who is an expert in modern feminism thoughts. She has written many articles and books on feminism in Kannada and English. Theilin Phanbuh – chairperson of the Meghalaya State Commission for Women and Padma Shri awardee Kirthi Jayakumar – founder of The Red Elephant Foundation, Author, Artist and Intersectional Feminist. Sharmila Rege – sociologist, Dalit Feminist, Activist in academia and Teacher of Women's Studies at Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Center, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Neera Desai – founder of first Research Centre for Women's Studies in SNDT Women's University. She wrote her M.A. thesis on Women in Modern India, with a particular focus on the Bhakti Movement. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan – contemporary feminist and academic. Author of Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture, and Postcolonialism. Gita Sen – academic, scholar, and activist specializing in population policy. She has worked with the United Nations System and is the General Coordinator of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era). Currently, Sen is an adjunct professor at Harvard University and a Professor Emeritus at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Nandini Sahu – contemporary eco-feministic Indian English Poet and Professor at IGNOU. Author of Sita (An Epic) Jyoti Puri - Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology at Simmons University. She is a leading feminist sociologist who advocates for transnational and postcolonial approaches to the study of gender, sexuality, state, nationalism, and death and migration. Focus includes anti-sodomy laws in India. See also Dalit feminism Domestic violence in India Dowry system in India Female foeticide in India Feminist theology Gender inequality in India Gender pay gap in India Islamic feminism Men's rights movement in India National Commission for Women Rape in India Sexism in India Sikh feminism Welfare schemes for women