Manasi Pradhan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Manasi Pradhan

Indian writer and activist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1962

Place of Birth: Banapur, Odisha, India

Profession: writer, poet, human rights activist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Manasi Pradhan (born 4 October 1962) is an Indian women's rights activist and author.
She is the founder of Honour for Women National Campaign, a nationwide movement to end violence against women in India.
In 2014, she was conferred with Rani Laskhmibai Stree Shakti Puraskar by the President of India.
Along with Mary Prema Pierick, global head of the Missionaries of Charity, she won the 'Outstanding Women Award' in 2011.Pradhan is frequently featured by international publications and organizations.
In 2016, the New York based Bustle (magazine) named her among 20 most inspiring Feminists Authors and Activists.
In 2017, the Los Angeles based Welker Media Inc.
named her among 12 most powerful feminist change makers.
In 2018, the Oxford Union of University of Oxford invited her to address the union.She is the founder of Nirbhaya Vahini, Nirbhaya Samaroh and OYSS Women.
She has served on the panel of Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board) for India and Inquiry Committee of the National Commission for Women.Born to a poor family in a remote village of Odisha, she fought successfully the widely prevalent social taboo against educating women, walked 15 km daily amidst hilly terrain and swamp to the only high school in the entire region to emerge as first woman matriculate of her village and subsequently the first woman law graduate of her region.
The inspiring life story of Manasi Pradhan has been adopted as documentaries in United States and Israel.