Vidyagauri Nilkanth
Indian reformer, educationist and writer. Also, was one of the first female graduate from Bombay province.
Married Ramanbhai Nilkanth and together they wrote many articles, books and jointly edited a magazine, Jnanasudha
She started the Ahmedabad branch of the All India Women's Conference.
She contributed to women’s magazines such as Gunsundari, Streebodh, and Sharada.
She had written several essays with light humour as well as biographical sketches. Foram (1955) includes biographical sketches of his relatives and associates which influenced her. He other essay collections are: Grihadipika (1931), Narikunj (1956), Gyansudha (1957). Her miscellaneous essays are included in Hasyamandir.
Kaajal Oza Vaidya
Author, screenwriter, radio personality and journalist.
She has written stories, dialogues and scripts of soap operas and films. She writes columns in several publications and hosts a radio show.
She has published several novels and collection of essays and articles.
She wrote story for several TV soap operas. Her Ek Daalna Pankhi (2001) which was aired on DD Girnar, and completed 1600 episodes while Moti Ba aired on ETV Gujarati completed 500 episodes. Her other weekly soaps in Gujarati were Saat Taali, Ek Moti Eklavyanu. In Hindi, she wrote story of Apne Paraye aired on B4U and Mahasati Savitri aired on SAB TV. She wrote the screenplay of Gujarati films like Dikri To Parki Thapan Kehvay and Saptapadii (2013).
Dhiruben Patel
Dhiruben Patel has written several collections of short stories and poetry as well as novels.
Her work is influenced by Gandhian ideals.
Critics Susie Tharu and Ke Lalita have written, "Although Dhiruben does not consider herself a feminist, like the novelist Kundanika Kapadia, she believes that the root cause of women's inferior status lies in their own mental conditioning.
Her early work, in particular, deals with the lives of women and their relationships, and what Tharu and Lalita have also described as the "quest for selfhood".
Her later work has been primarily for children and young adults, and she advocated literature for children despite the easy availability of information on the internet.
Kundanika Kapadia
Snehdhan (સ્નેહધન) was her pen name. Parodh Thata Pahela (પરોઢ થતા પહેલા) was her first novel followed by Agnipipasa (અગ્નિપિપાસા). She wrote Sat Pagala Akashma (Seven Steps in the Sky, 1984), which won her critical acclaim and is considered as her best novel which explored feminism.
She broke new grounds by introducing in Gujarati literature self-assertion of women as subject matter through her novel Saat Pagla Aakashma (literally meaning seven steps in the sky). The subject of the novel was novel to Gujarati literature as it talked of women as separate and independent entity from men and not merely fitment in patriarchal world.
Her first story was "Premna Ansu", which won her the second prize in international story competition organised by Janmabhoomi newspaper. She started writing more stories thereafter. Premna Ansu (1954) was published as her story collection.
Hansa Mehta
She was a daughter of Manubhai Mehta, Dewan of Baroda State, and the granddaughter of Nandshankar Mehta, the author of the first Gujarati novel Karan Ghelo.
She graduated with Philosophy in 1918. She studied journalism and sociology in England.
Hansa Mehta organized the picketing of shops selling foreign clothes and liquor, and participated in other freedom movement activities in line with the advice of Mahatma Gandhi.
After independence, she was among the 15 women who were part of the constituent assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution.
She was a member of the Advisory Committee and Sub Committee on Fundamental Rights. She advocated for equality and justice for women in India.
As the Indian delegate on the UN Human Rights Commission in 1947–48, she was responsible for changing the language of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from "all men are created equal" (Eleanor Roosevelt’s preferred phrase) to "all human beings",[10] highlighting the need for gender equality.
Hansa later went on to become the vice chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations in 1950. She was also a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO.
She wrote several children's books in Gujarati including Arunnu Adbhut Swapna (1934), Bablana Parakramo (1929), Balvartavali Part 1-2 (1926, 1929). She translated some books of Valmiki Ramayana: Aranyakanda, Balakanda and Sundarakanda.
She translated many English stories, including Gulliver's Travels. She had also adapted some plays of Shakespeare.
Her essays were collected and published as Ketlak Lekho (1978).
Hansa Mehta was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1959.
Sharda Mehta
Sharda Mehta (26 June 1882 – 13 November 1970) was an Indian social worker, proponent of women's education, and a Gujarati writer.
Born to a family of social reformers, she was one of the first two women graduates in the modern-day Gujarat state of India.
Mehta was associated with several educational and women's welfare institutes in Ahmedabad, Baroda, and Bombay during these years, as well as being a member of Baroda Praja Mandal (Baroda People's Association).
Mehta had studied and was deeply influenced by Hindu texts, Sanskrit literature, and the works of Aurobindo, Sukhlal Sanghvi, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
She was an essayist, biographer, and translator. She wrote essays on social issues in dailies and magazines. Puranoni Balbodhak Vartao (1906) is a collection of children's stories aimed at their development.
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