Indrani Mazumdar Age, Husband, Family, Biography

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Age: 69 Years

Hometown: Delhi

Marital Status: Divorced

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	• Activist • Author
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt & Pepper
Personal Life
Date of Birth	Year, 1955
Age (as of 2024)	69 Years
Birthplace	Calcutta, West Bengal
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Delhi, India
College/University	Delhi University, Delhi
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) • Master of Arts (History)
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Divorced
Affairs/Boyfriends	Sitaram Yechury
Marriage Date	Year, 1980
Family
Husband/Spouse	Sitaram Yechury (died on 12 September 2024; politician)
Children	Son(s)- 2 • Ashish Yechury (journalist) (elder; died of COVID-19 on 22 April 2021 at the age of 35) • Danish Yechury Daughter- 1 Akhila Yechury (professor) Note: Her children are from her previous husband.
Parents	Father- Shankar Mazumdar (musician) Mother- Vina Mazumdar (university professor; died on 30 May 2013)
Siblings	Brother- 1 (professor at Ambedkar University) Sisters- 2 • (Elder; professor at Delhi University) • (Younger; professor at JNU)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Indrani Mazumdar

Her mother, Vina Mazumdar, served as the Secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India. Vina taught at Patna University for 14 years and was a member of the University Grants Commission, holding a degree from Oxford University.
Vina Mazumdar as a student of Asutosh College

Her father was a musician and a disciple of Ustad Amir Khan. He began his music career late in life and, and, as he was very nervous on stage, he was unable to establish himself as a musician.

She and her three siblings were associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) from a young age.

In their home, there were frequent discussions about philosophy, politics, and history, exposing her to Marxist ideas from an early age.

After completing her postgraduate studies at Delhi University, Indrani Mazumdar enrolled at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1972 for a five-year course.

During the Emergency in 1975-76, she was expelled from the JNU as she was politically active as a member of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and served as a student councillor.

After the Emergency was declared, there was unrest at JNU, and two strikes took place within the first month.
Indrani Mazumdar during her visit to JNU in 2019

The university authorities decided that 4-5 students, including Indrani Mazumdar, should not continue their studies, leading to her registration being cancelled.

She then went back to Delhi University but did not disclose that she had previously been a student at JNU.

At Delhi University, Indrani Mazumdar worked to strengthen the SFI from 1976 to 1982.

During the Emergency, when she was serving as the councillor for the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), she was given the task of distributing leaflets from the underground movement.

Indrani Mazumdar continued to fight against the Emergency as part of a larger political movement.

She married Sitaram Yechury soon after completing her master’s degree in 1980; they dated each other for many years before getting married.

Later, Indrani Mazumdar joined the Janwadi Mahila Samiti (JMS) and the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), which was established in 1980.

In 2007, she published the book Women Workers and Globalization: Emergent Contradictions in India.
The cover of the book Women Workers and Globalization Emergent Contradictions in India

In 2020, Indrani Mazumdar retired as a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi (CWDS).