Activist Manasi among world’s top 20 feminist authors, activists

Activist Manasi among world’s top 20 feminist authors, activists , Bhubaneswar: Noted women’s rights activist and author from Odisha, Manasi Pradhan has become the first Indian to feature in the prestigious global list of World’s Top 20 feminist author and activist compiled by America’s most read women magazine “Bustle”. Barring Pradhan, seven Nobel Prize winners and several Pulitzer Prize

winners including, Naomi Klein, MalalaYousafzai, Angela Davis, Kate Millet, Gloria Steinem, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchu, Betty Friedan, Sheryl WuDunn and Ann Jones also featured in the list.

The book “Urmi O Uchchwas” authored by Pradhan and translated into eight major languages has been listed by the “Bustle” magazine. She is the founder of OYSS Women and NirbhayaVahini.

In 2009, she launched the Honour for Women National Campaign, a nationwide movement to end violence against women in India. The movement has been instrumental in galvanizing the nation against women atrocities.

Pradhan has served as a Member of the National Commission for Women and India’s Central Film Censor Board.