Anuradha Ghandy

Anuradha Ghandy
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Born	Anuradha Shanbag (1954-03-28)28 March 1954
Died	12 April 2008(2008-04-12) (aged 54) Mumbai, India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Narmada, Varsha, Rama, Anu, Janaki
Alma mater	Elphinstone College, Mumbai
Known for	Prominent Figure of Maoist movement in India
Spouse	Kobad Ghandy ​ (m. 1983)​

Anuradha Ghandy (28 March 1954 – 12 April 2008) was an Indian communist, writer, and revolutionary leader. She was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). She was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), in Maharashtra.^[1]

Among the policy papers drafted by the Marxist movement, Anuradha had contributed significantly to the ones on castes and 'Feminism and Marxism'. She made the guerillas realise the potential of worker cooperatives in areas like agricultural production, in Dandakaranya. She was also critical on shifting patriarchal ideas that were then dominant in the party.^[2]

In her obituary for Anuradha, with whom she was friends from the days when the latter was still a college student in the 1970s,^[3] Jyoti Punwani wrote: "'The Naxalite menace', says Manmohan Singh, 'is the biggest threat to the country'. But I remember a girl who was always laughing and who gave up a life rich in every way to change the lives of others".