Indrani Mazumdar Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Indrani Mazumdar

• Her mother, Vina Mazumdar, was a renowned personality and served as the Member Secretary of the Committee on the Status of Women in India, which published an important report in 1977-78 that helped revive the women’s movement after the Emergency.

• Vina Mazumdar taught at Patna University for 14 years and was also on the board of the University Grants Commission. She had a degree from Oxford University.
  

  Vina Mazumdar as a student of Asutosh College

• Her father was a musician and a disciple of Ustad Amir Khan, a renowned vocalist in Hindustani classical music. He began his music career late in life and, being nervous on stage, he was unable to establish himself as a musician.

• She and her three siblings were associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) from a young age.

• In their home, there were frequent discussions about philosophy, politics, and history, exposing her to Marxist ideas from an early age.

• After completing her postgraduate studies at Delhi University, Indrani Mazumdar enrolled at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1972 for a five-year course.

• During the Emergency in 1975-76, she was expelled from the JNU as she was politically active as a member of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and served as a student councillor.

• After the Emergency was declared, there was unrest at JNU, and two strikes took place within the first month.
  

  Indrani Mazumdar during her visit to JNU in 2019

• The university authorities decided that 4-5 students, including Indrani Mazumdar, should not continue their studies, leading to her registration being cancelled.

• She then went back to Delhi University but did not disclose that she had previously been a student at JNU.

• At Delhi University, Indrani Mazumdar worked to strengthen the SFI from 1976 to 1982.

• During the Emergency, when she was serving as the councillor for the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), she was given the task of distributing leaflets from the underground movement.

• Indrani Mazumdar continued to fight against the Emergency as part of a larger political movement.

• She married Sitaram Yechury soon after completing her master’s degree in 1980; they had a long relationship before getting married.

• While working as a full-time SFI member, she was paid Rs. 200.

• Later, Indrani Mazumdar joined the Janwadi Mahila Samiti (JMS) and the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), which was established in 1980.

• In 2007, she published the book Women Workers and Globalization: Emergent Contradictions in India.
  

  The cover of the book Women Workers and Globalization Emergent Contradictions in India

• In 2020, Indrani Mazumdar retired as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi (CWDS).