Anuradha Ghandy

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Full Name	Anuradha Ghandy
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 28, 1954(1954-03-28)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2008-04-12
Birthplace	Mumbai
Country	India
Horoscope	Pisces

Anuradha Ghandy Biography

Anuradha Ghandy is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 28, 1954 in Mumbai, India. Anuradha came from a previous generation of communists Ganesh Kumud Shanbag and Ganesh who were married at Mumbai at the CPI Office in Mumbai. They were part of the party until mid-1950, but it had not yet made the leap into the current Maoist as well as Marxist factions. Ganesh became a member of the Defence committee, and volunteered to assist in the trials which were filed against communists. Kumud is an active social worker throughout her entire life and is at the moment involved in an organization for women. They were extremely forward-thinking in the way they raised their children, and they later became revolutionary. The brother of Anuradha’s, Sunil Shanbag, is an innovative Mumbai-based playwright writing revolutionary, left-wing plays. Anuradha was a student at the J. B. Petit School in Santacruz. The students were exposed to different ideas and views and were encouraged to read widely and pursue their own interests like classical dancing and theater. In a family where communist ideologies were a dominant force the child was bound to Anuradha was enticed by radical political ideas. The most prominent period for propagandists of communism within India occurred in the late 1970s which included an era of the Cultural Revolution in China, opposition to the Vietnam War in the US as well as a myriad of other changes in society. It was during this period that Naxalbari was born which set the entire region on fire. South Asia. Anuradha was involved in PROYOM which was a radical student organization.

She was among the most prominent leaders in India during the post-emergency period at the time it was when the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights was formed. Her involvement in trade unions as well as the dalit groups from the Vidarbha region led her to moving away from Mumbai and moving to Nagpur around 1982. She was detained a number of times during this period and then went underground. There was a mention of her involvement in the tribes of Bastar. She was the leader of the women’s side of the party and was working underground till her passing.

Anuradha died of causes related to falciparum malaria on 12 April 2008. Systemic sclerosis had weakened her immune system, leading to multiple organ failure, which was, among other things, responsible for her bad handwriting. It was during her stint in Jharkhand, educating the tribals against oppression of women in their society, when she contracted cerebral malaria. During her final days, she had been training the women cadre to develop leadership skills.

In her obituary to Anuradha who she had been friends since the time that he was still a student in college back in 1970, Jyoti Punwani wrote “‘The Naxalite menace’, says Manmohan Singh, ‘is the biggest threat to the country’. But I remember a girl who was always laughing and who gave up a life rich in every way to change the lives of others”.

Anuradha Ghandy Net Worth

Anuradha Ghandy is one of the richest Politician from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anuradha Ghandy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Anuradha Ghandy (28 March 1954 – 12 April 2008) was an Indian communist writer, author an activist leader and writer. She was a part of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). She was involved mostly in the field of propaganda and also in the CPI’s uprising into urban areas. She was among the founders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Maharashtra.

The 1970s were a time when Elphinstone College, Mumbai was a center for extreme left-wing activists. Anuradha played a major role. The things she saw in refugee camps in war-ravaged Bangladesh as well as the famine-stricken areas of Maharashtra in the past is likely to have drawn her closer with social services. After that, she joined the Progressive Youth Movement (PROYOM) which was where she became got involved in the then-Naxalite Movement. She participated in The 1975 Dalit Panther Movement.

In November 1983, Anuradha Shanbag married Kobad Ghandy, also a Naxalite like herself. Ghandy hails from a Gujarati-Parsi family.

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Anuradha Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Anuradha Ghandy celebrates birthday on March 28 of every year.