Mala Sen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mala Sen

Indian author

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India

Date of Death: 21-May-2011

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was an Indian-British writer and human rights activist.
As an activist, she was known for her civil rights activism and race relations work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the British Asian and British Black Panthers movements, and later her women's rights activism in India.
As a writer, she was known for her book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi, which led to the acclaimed 1994 film Bandit Queen.
After researching the oppression of women in rural India, she also published Death by Fire in 2001.