: विद्या बाळ) (born c. 1938) is a Marathi

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 writer/editor from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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. She has been a social activist particularly in the area of equalization of the social status of women vis-à-vis men in India.

She joined the editorial staff of monthly Stree (स्त्री) in 1964, and then worked for about 20 years as its editor. After leaving the editorship of Stree, she founded monthly Miloon Saryajani (मिळून सार्‍याजणी) in 1989. The web page http://www.miloonsaryajani.com/node/5 contains her editorial describing her objectives in founding Miloon Saryajani.

Excellent information about Bal's work and personal life is available in her interview in Marathi which is documented in the six-part video series accessible at http://www.ibnlokmat.tv/showvideo.php?id=55022.

The web page http://www.miloonsaryajani.com/taxonomy/term/8 provides links to Bal's many editorials.

The webpage http://justfemme.in/MiloonSaryajani-VidyaBal has more information about the reach of her magazine and its impact.

Literary works

• Sanwad (संवाद)
• Katha Gaurichi (कथा गौरीची)
• Tumachya Majhyasathi (तुमच्या माझ्यासाठी)
• Aparajitanche Nihshwas (अपराजितांचे नि:श्वास)
• Shodh Swatahacha (शोध स्वत:चा)
• Kamalaki (कमलाकी) (Biography)