Every Movement Must Start With Organisation
The founder of SEWA narrates the story of growing up during India’s freedom struggle, setting up the women’s cooperative, and the possibilities of swaraj hereon
Ela Bhat
Ela Bhatt is the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA). A lawyer by training, Bhatt is a part of the international labour, cooperative, women, and micro-finance movements and has won several national and international awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1977), Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Padma Bhushan (1986). She is also the current Chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapith.
