Kamla Bashin

SANGAT South Asia and JAGORI, India

http://www.jagori.org

Kamla Bhasin was born in 1946 and grew up in Rajasthan, India. She received a BA at Maharani's College in Jaipur and an MA in Economics at Rajasthan University. In addition, she studied Sociology of Development for four semesters at Muenster University in West Germany.

Bhasin's work has involved close collaboration with U.N., government, and bilateral agencies, media, researchers, academics and others. As part of this work she has travelled extensively in Asia, specially in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bhutan India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. She have been able to see the work of and establish personal contacts with a large number of organisations involved in development action and reflection at different levels. She is also a founder member of JAGORI - Women's Resource and Training Centre, New Delhi.

Bhasin has written a large number of articles on issues related to development, participatory training, media and communication, gender etc, in both Hindi and English for newspapers, development journals and books.