Rajni Bakshi

Rajni Bakshi at the Cultural Economics in India session during the India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, India

Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist and author. She writes about social and political movements in contemporary India and currently works as the senior Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.^[1] Her journalism has appeared in many English and Hindi newspapers and magazines.^[2] Bakshi attended school in Kingston, Jamaica, Indraprastha College (Delhi), George Washington University (Washington D.C.) and Rajasthan University (Jaipur).^[2]

She is the author of Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom (2009) which won two Vodafone Crossword Book Awards, one in the "Non Fiction" category, and one in the "Popular Award" category.^[3][4]

Works

• The Long Haul: The Bombay Textile Workers Strike of 1982-83 (1986; Great Bombay Textile Strike)
• The Dispute Over Swami Vivekananda's Legacy (1993; Swami Vivekananda)
• Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (1998)
• LETS Make it Happen: Alternative Economics (2003)
• An Economics for Well-Being (2003)
• Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom (2009)

Notes

1. "The science of non-violence". The Hindu. 2013-10-02.
2. Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom, official website
3. "Mumbaikar brings home fiction award", The Times of India, Aug 21, 2010
4. "Rajni Bakshi wins two Crossword Book Awards". Hindustan Times. 2010-08-21.

External links

• Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom, official website
• Review of Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom
• Rajni Bakshi, Author at Gateway House