Srilatha Batliwala

Srilatha Batliwala, a social activist, advocate of women's rights, scholar, and author of many books on empowerment of women is from Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), Karnataka, India. From the later part of the 1970s she has been engaged in linking "grassroots activism, advocacy, teaching, research, training," obtaining grants, and works of scholarly nature. Empowerment of women came to defined in the middle of 1980s, which according to Baltiwala is a terminology which signified "welfare, upliftment, community participation, and poverty alleviation."

Srilatha Batliwala

Srilatha Batliwala, a social activist, advocate of women's rights, scholar, and author of many books on empowerment of women is from Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), Karnataka, India. From the later part of the 1970s she has been engaged in linking "grassroots activism, advocacy, teaching, research, training," obtaining grants, and works of scholarly nature. Empowerment of women came to defined in the middle of 1980s, which according to Baltiwala is a terminology which signified "welfare, upliftment, community participation, and poverty alleviation."