Prison Notes of a Woman Activist

B. Anuradha is a women's rights activist based in Hyderabad. While working for a bank in Hyderabad, she came in contact with the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee and worked as an activist from 1990 to 1993, and later as a women's rights activist. She resigned from her job in 1996 to work in the Chaitanya Mahila Sangam, a state-wide women's organization. She was on the editorial board of the magazine Mahila Margam. In 2005, she relocated to Jharkhand to work as an activist in the Nari Mukti Sangh. She was arrested in October 2009 and spent four years in the Hazaribagh Central Jail. Anuradha has written twenty-seven short stories and several articles. Most of her prison stories have been published in the Sunday special edition of the daily Andhra Jyothi, as well as in Mahila Margam, Aruna Tara, Sahithi Godavari and the web magazine Saranga. Sixteen of these stories were later published as a collection by Virasam (Revolutionary Writers Association). Some of the stories were also translated into Hindi and published in Hindi magazines. 'Paro's Children' was translated into Bengali. She has translated The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble, Articles of Ambedkar on Women (Feminist Ambedkar) and Feminising the Labour Relations by Dr M. Vanamala into Telugu, and co-translated Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth along with N Ravi