Vidya Bal

Vidya Bal (Devanagari: विद्या बाळ) (born c. 1938) is a Marathi writer/editor from Maharashtra, India. She has been a social activist particularly in the area of equalization of the social status of women vis-à-vis men in India.

She joined the editorial staff of monthly Stree (स्त्री) in 1964, and then worked from 1983 to 1986 as its full-time editor. After leaving the editorship of Stree, she founded monthly Miloon Saryajani (मिळून सार्‍याजणी) in 1989. The web page http://www.miloonsaryajani.com/node/5 contains her editorial describing her objectives in founding Miloon Saryajani. The biography Kamlaki and novel Valvantatil Vat are famous.

Excellent information about Bal's work and personal life is available in her interview in Marathi which is documented in the six-part video series accessible at http://www.ibnlokmat.tv/showvideo.php?id=55022.

The web page http://www.miloonsaryajani.com/taxonomy/term/8 provides links to Bal's many editorials.

The webpage http://justfemme.in/MiloonSaryajani-VidyaBal has more information about the reach of her magazine and its impact.

Vidya Bal has been fighting a legal battle in the High Court of Maharashtra, for women getting the right to enter various places of worship. The High Court has decided in favour of her Petipa on 1 April. This is a fantastic victory for liberal Hindu women group.

Literary works

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