The Founders

JAGORI (meaning “awaken woman) was founded in 1984 by -Abha Bhaiya, Kamla Bhasin, Runu Chakravarty, Gauri Choudhury, Sheba Chhacchi, Manjari Dingwaney and Jogendra Panghaal with the aim of having a creative space for women to express themselves, and spreading feminist ideology to a wider constituency of women especially in small towns and rural areas.

The General Body

The JAGORI General Body comprises of Abha Bhaiya, Enakshi Ganguly Thakral, Jayawati Shrivastava, Jogendra Panghaal, Kalpana Viswanath Basu, Manak Matiyani, Manjari Dingwaney, Manjima Bhattacharjya, Martin Macwan, Nandita Gandhi, Pamela Phillipose, Renu Addlakha and Suneeta Dhar. The GB meets once a year.

The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is elected by the General Body and meets three times a year

Chairperson: Kalpana Viswanath

Treasurer: Manjari Dingwaney

Secretary: Manjima Bhattacharjya

Members: Nandita Gandhi, Renu Addlakha, Pamela Philipose, Jogendra Panghaal and Jayashree Velankar (Ex officio)

The JAGORI Team

Amrita, Annu, Bhim, Heerawati, Jaya, Jushya, Kailash, Laxmi, Mahabir, Meera, Nidhi, Norati, Poonam, Preeti, Ruhi, Sachin, Sarita, Shalini, Sourabh, Sunita

Advisors and Consultants

Advisors: C.A. R.K. Sharda

Anagha Khot, Anita Das, Dattatray Gurav, Geetha Nambisan, Hitesh, Ishu, Khushboo, Madhurima, Mannat Tipnis, Monika, Najni, Niharica, Neeraj Kumar, Purabi Paul, Satish Kumar Singh, Savita, Sunita Thakur, Soutik Banarjee, Sushma, Tulsi, Urmila, Usha

Fellows

Hitesh, Urmila

Besides this JAGORI is lucky to have a large network of friends, volunteers and past members who link up in many ways with our work from wherever they are today in the world.