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, Kamla Bhasin, 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

Aakanksha, Amrita, Bhim, Deepshikha, Heerawati, Ishu, Jaya, Jushya, Kailash, Laxmi, Madhurima, Mahabir, Nidhi, Norati, Poonam, Preeti, Rinky, Sabra, Sachin, Sarita, Savita, Shalini, Shabeena, Shruti, Sunita, Sunita Thakur, Tulsi

The Senior Advisors

R.K. Sharda, Suneeta Dhar

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.