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  1. Life and career

  2. Works

  3. References

{{Infobox Author|birth_place=Lahore|occupation=Journalist|nationality=Indian|language=English|notableworks=Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi, Breaking News|partner=D.R. Mankekar|birth_date=1928|death_date=2018}}Kamla Mankekar ({{birth-date|1928}}[1]–2018){{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}) was an Indian journalist, author, and social activist. She is best known as one of the early female journalists in the independent India.[2][3][4]

Life and career

Kamla Mankekar was born in Lahore, British India (currently in Pakistan), the daughter of Lilavati and Harbans Lal.[1] Her family fled West Punjab for India as refugees during Partition.[4]

In Delhi, she studied at the refugee camp college, and took evening postgraduate classes in journalism.[4]

Mankekar started her career as writer, columnist, and sub-editor for the Indian News Chronicle,[4][5] In 1950, she started working for The Times of India, where she was a writer, sub-editor, and film critic.[4][11] She later worked at The Indian Express for five years.[11] She eventually went on to work as a freelance journalist.[6]

In 1958, she married D.R. Mankekar, author and former editor of both The Indian Express and The Times of India.[4][6][7] They would go on to co-author the book Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi.[6][18]

An active member of civil society, she helped found the Consumer Guidance Society in Bombay, and was a long-time member of the All India Women's Conference.[6] She was also the first chairperson of the Delhi State Commission for Women,[2][6] a member of India's National Integration Council,[6] and on India's film censor board.[2]

In the 1960s, she headed the public relations department of Rallis India Ltd.[4]

She wrote about her experiences as a pioneering Indian female journalist in her 2014 memoir, Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World.[2]

After the death of her husband, she moved to California to be near her children.[4][6]

Works

  • Abortion: A Social Dilemma (1973)[8]
  • Voluntary Effort in Family Planning: A Brief History (1974)[9]
  • Women in India (1975)[10]
  • Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi (1977, with D.R. Mankekar)[11]
  • Nagendra Singh, A Many Splendoured Life (1998)[12]
  • Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance (2002, with Sushila Nayar)[13]
  • Culture and Religious Traditions in Temples of Goa (2004)[14]
  • Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World (2014)[15]

References

1. ^1 {{Cite book|title=Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|publisher=Rupa Publications India|year=2014|isbn=9788129131201|location=New Delhi|pages=14}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/review-of-breaking-news-a-woman-in-a-mans-world/article6748684.ece|title=Keepers of the keys|last=Sharma|first=Kalpana|date=2015-01-03|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-12-23|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/kamla-mankekar-launches-her-book-breaking-news/article6334995.ece|title=The power of the pen then…|last=Choudhary|first=Karan|date=2014-08-20|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-12-23|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/a-lady-on-grub-street/|title=A Lady on Grub Street|date=2015-04-04|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2018-12-23}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title=Breaking News: A Woman in a Man’s World|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|publisher=Rupa Publications India|year=2014|isbn=9788129131201|location=New Delhi|pages=10}}
6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{Cite web|url=http://rupapublications.co.in/authors/kamla-mankekar/|title=Kamla Mankekar|last=|first=|date=|website=Rupa Publications|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-23}}
7. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=June 30, 1977|title=Book extract: Decline And Fall Of Indira Gandhi by D.R. Mankekar|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19770630-book-extract-decline-and-fall-of-indira-gandhi-by-d.r.-mankekar-823804-2014-08-22|journal=India Today|volume=|pages=|via=}}
8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/abortion-a-social-dilemma/oclc/732139|title=Abortion: a social dilemma.|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=1973|publisher=Vikas Pub. House|isbn=9780706902631|location=Delhi|language=English}}
9. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/voluntary-effort-in-family-planning-a-brief-history/oclc/1501807|title=Voluntary effort in family planning: a brief history|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=1974|publisher=Abhinav Publications|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
10. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-in-india/oclc/6447993|title=Women in India|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|last2=Central Institute of Research and Training in Public Co-operation|date=1975|publisher=Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
11. ^1 {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/decline-and-fall-of-indira-gandhi/oclc/255889915|title=Decline and fall of Indira Gandhi|last=Mankekar|first=Dinker R|last2=Mankekar|first2=Kamla|date=1977|publisher=Vision Books|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
12. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/nagendra-singh-a-many-splendoured-life/oclc/39291215|title=Nagendra Singh, a many splendoured life|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|last2=India|last3=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|last4=Publications Division|date=1998|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|isbn=9788123006123|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
13. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/women-pioneers-in-indias-renaissance-as-i-remember-her-contributions-from-eminent-women-of-present-day-india/oclc/50719112|title=Women pioneers in India's renaissance, as I remember her: contributions from eminent women of present-day India|last=Nayar|first=Sushila|last2=Mankekar|first2=Kamla|date=2002|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=9788123737669|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
14. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/culture-and-religious-traditions-in-temples-of-goa/oclc/60392445|title=Culture and religious traditions in temples of Goa|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=2004|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|isbn=9788123011615|location=New Delhi|language=English}}
15. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/breaking-news-a-woman-in-a-mans-world/oclc/894476694|title=Breaking news: a woman in a man's world|last=Mankekar|first=Kamla|date=2014|isbn=9788129131201|language=English}}

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