Kamla Bhasin died in New Delhi on Sept. 25 at the age of 75. Bhasin played an integral role in the second wave of feminism and was a prominent voice in the women’s movement in India and other South Asian countries from the 1970s to the present.
“I increasingly found amongst the poor, women were poorer. … Amongst the excluded, women were more excluded. So even though I didn’t begin my journey as a feminist activist, I slowly became one without even knowing the word ‘feminist’ at that time.”“If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.”
Bhasin’s funeral was worthy of the veteran feminist. It was full of music—appropriate, for this was a woman who used songs to transform lives. She was carried to the electric crematorium on the shoulders of two generations of feminists—a sign of how revolutionary she was, since in traditional Hindu society, bodies are almost always carried on the shoulders of male relatives.
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