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	'''Pinki Virani''' (born 30 ~~January~~ 1959) is an Indian writer, journalist, [[human-rights]] activist and writer. She is the author of ''Once was Bombay'',<ref>{{Cite book\|title=Once was Bombay\|last=Virani, Pinki, 1959-\|publisher=Penguin\|year=2001\|isbn=0-14-028791-4\|location=New Delhi\|oclc=49350714}}</ref> ''Aruna's Story'', ''Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India'' (which won the National Award),<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/theatre-tribute-to-aruna-shanbaug/article7500017.ece\|title=Theatre tribute to Aruna Shanbaug\|last=Srinivasan\|first=Madhumita\|date=2015-08-05\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2020-01-30\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and ''Deaf Heaven''.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052333/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=29 June 2011\|title=As we see ourselves		'''Pinki Virani''' (born January 30, 1959) is an Indian writer, journalist, [[human-rights]] activist and writer. She is the author of ''Once was Bombay'',<ref>{{Cite book\|title=Once was Bombay\|last=Virani, Pinki, 1959-\|publisher=Penguin\|year=2001\|isbn=0-14-028791-4\|location=New Delhi\|oclc=49350714}}</ref> ''Aruna's Story'', ''Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India'' (which won the National Award),<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/theatre-tribute-to-aruna-shanbaug/article7500017.ece\|title=Theatre tribute to Aruna Shanbaug\|last=Srinivasan\|first=Madhumita\|date=2015-08-05\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2020-01-30\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and ''Deaf Heaven''.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052333/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=29 June 2011\|title=As we see ourselves
	\|author=R. Krithika\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] \|date=19 July 2009 \|access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref> Her fifth book is called ''Politics of the Womb -- The Perils of Ivf, Surrogacy & Modified Babies''.		\|author=R. Krithika\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] \|date=19 July 2009 \|access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref> Her fifth book is called ''Politics of the Womb -- The Perils of Ivf, Surrogacy & Modified Babies''.
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/sunday-pioneer/special/the-egg-commerce.html \|title=The Egg Commerce \|publisher=Daily Pioneer \|date=25 September 2016}}</ref>		<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/sunday-pioneer/special/the-egg-commerce.html \|title=The Egg Commerce \|publisher=Daily Pioneer \|date=25 September 2016}}</ref>

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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Pinki Virani
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| birth_place = [[Bombay]], India
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'''Pinki Virani''' (born 30 January 1959) is an Indian writer, journalist, [[human-rights]] activist and writer. She is the author of ''Once was Bombay'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Once was Bombay|last=Virani, Pinki, 1959-|publisher=Penguin|year=2001|isbn=0-14-028791-4|location=New Delhi|oclc=49350714}}</ref> ''Aruna's Story'', ''Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India'' (which won the National Award),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/theatre-tribute-to-aruna-shanbaug/article7500017.ece|title=Theatre tribute to Aruna Shanbaug|last=Srinivasan|first=Madhumita|date=2015-08-05|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-30|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and ''Deaf Heaven''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052333/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/07/19/stories/2009071950040200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2011|title=As we see ourselves
|author=R. Krithika|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=19 July 2009 |access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref> Her fifth book is called ''Politics of the Womb -- The Perils of Ivf, Surrogacy & Modified Babies''.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/sunday-pioneer/special/the-egg-commerce.html |title=The Egg Commerce |publisher=Daily Pioneer |date=25 September 2016}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Virani was born in [[Mumbai]], India, 30 January 1959, to [[Gujarati Muslims|Gujarati Muslim]] parents. Her father owned a shop, and her mother was a teacher. She attended school in Mumbai, Pune and [[Mussoorie]]. She went to the US to study for a Masters in Journalism on the [[Aga Khan Foundation]] scholarship. She did an internship at ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', where she reported extensively on the race riots in Britain.

==Career==
She started working as a typist at the age of 18. When she returned to India after her scholarship, she worked as a reporter and went on to become India's first woman editor of an evening paper.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} She moved from daily journalism when she published her first book.

Virani is the author of five books.
''Aruna's Story'' is about the rape of a nurse that left her in a coma. The book forms part of a 52-minute documentary, produced by the [[Public Service Broadcasting Trust|PSBT]], titled 'Passive Euthanasia: Kahaani Karuna Ki'.Theatre director [[Arvind Gaur]] scripted and directed it as solo play 'Aruna's Story'. Solo act performed by [[Lushin Dubey]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/theatre/Aruna-Shanbaugs-story-retold-on-stage/articleshow/49283079.cms|title=Aruna Shanbaug's story retold on stage|author=Pratyush Patra |newspaper=[[Times of India]] |access-date=2018-12-04|location=Delhi,India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/featured-blog/arunas-story-she-was-no-less-a-martyr-who-sparked-progressive-change/1379917|title=Aruna's Story: She was no less a martyr who sparked progressive change|author=Shikha Jain|date=21 October 2018 |access-date=2018-12-04}}</ref>
''Bitter Chocolate'' is about [[child sexual abuse]] in India. A Solo play based on this book was scripted-directed by [[Arvind Gaur]] and performed by [[Lushin Dubey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=72677|title=Nobody's Child|author=Drama critic|newspaper=[[Indian Express]]|date=2004-01-07|access-date=2010-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040929061849/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=72677|archive-date=29 September 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/04/11/stories/2005041100650200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103163028/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/04/11/stories/2005041100650200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012|title=An unspoken bitter truth|author=Drama critic|newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=11 April 2005 |access-date=2008-12-24|location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/09/12/stories/2004091200140500.htm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040930060233/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/09/12/stories/2004091200140500.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 30 September 2004|title=It happens here too|author=SHALINI UMACHANDRAN |date=12 Sep 2004 |access-date=2013-07-13 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
''Once Was Bombay'' is a sociology book.
''Deaf Heaven'', her first work of fiction, experiments with form and style to warn off the danger of the tipping over of a modern country into neo-fascism.
In ''Politics Of The Womb – The Perils Of Ivf, Surrogacy & Modified Babies'' (2016), Virani criticises [[In vitro fertilisation|IVF]] and other forms of assisted reproduction when used on women in aggressively repetitive cycles and calls for a worldwide ban on commercial surrogacy and other forms of third-party assisted reproduction <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/pinki-virani-on-commercial-surrogacy-worst-kind-of-patriarchy-posturing-as-pro-woman-choice-2999272.html |title=Pinki Virani on commercial surrogacy: 'Worst kind of patriarchy posturing as pro-woman choice' |work=[[Firstpost]] |date=11 September 2016 |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>

==Aruna Shanbaug case==
{{Main|Aruna Shanbaug case}}
In 2009, Pinki Virani filed a petition in [[Supreme Court of India]] on behalf of Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse working at the [[KEM Hospital]] in [[Mumbai]] on 27 November 1973 when she was sexually assaulted by a sweeper.<ref>{{cite news |title=India court admits plea to end life of rape victim|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8417549.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]], Delhi |date=17 December 2009 }}</ref> During the attack, Shanbaug was strangled with a chain, and the deprivation of oxygen left her in a vegetative state. She was treated at KEM following the incident and was kept alive by a feeding tube for 42 years, until her death of pneumonia in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aruna Shanbaug: Brain-damaged India nurse dies 42 years after rape|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32776897|work=BBC News |date=18 May 2015 |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> In Virani's 2009 petition, she argued that the "continued existence of Aruna is in violation of her right to live in dignity". The Supreme Court made its decision on 7 March 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-36-yrs-of-immobility-a-fresh-hope-of/555048/| title=After 36 yrs of immobility, a fresh hope of death| newspaper=Indian Express| date=17 December 2009| access-date=7 March 2011}}</ref> It rejected the plea to discontinue Aruna's life support but issued a set of broad guidelines legalising passive euthanasia in India. The Supreme Court also refused to recognise Virani as the "next friend" of Shanbaug, a description Virani had used to file the petition.<ref name=hin>{{cite web|url= http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/outtoday/wr1152009.pdf|title= Supreme Court decision on Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug versus Union of India|access-date= 11 September 2016|publisher= Supreme Court of India|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170110142938/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/outtoday/wr1152009.pdf|archive-date= 10 January 2017|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==Personal life==
She is married to [[Shankkar Aiyar]], who is a journalist and the author of ''Accidental India''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Virani saga |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090801/saturday/above.htm |newspaper=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |date=1 August 2009 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Aruna's Story: the true account of a rape and its aftermath''. Viking, 1998.
* ''Bitter Chocolate: child sexual abuse in India'', Penguin Books, 2000
*{{Cite book
|title=Once was Bombay
|publisher=Viking
|isbn=0-670-88869-9
|year=1999
}}
* ''Deaf Heaven'', HarperCollins Publishers India, 2009. {{ISBN|81-7223-849-5}}.
* ''Politics Of The Womb—The Perils Of IVF, Surrogacy & Modified Babies'', Penguin Random House, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0670088720}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032423/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Virani+Pinki SAWNET biography]
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