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| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, India<br />
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| occupation = Journalist, columnist, author, writer, activist, event designer<br />
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'''Vimla Patil''' (died 29 September 2024) was an Indian journalist, author, activist, columnist, writer (books and features, speeches and research), event designer.<br />
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==Career==<br />
While studying journalism in London, Vimla Patil was a part-time trainee for [[The Telegraph (UK)|''The Telegraph'']]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001219165200/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 December 2000 |title=Telegraph.co.uk – Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday |work=The Telegraph|access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> and then worked for a business journal called ''The Office Magazine''. Upon returning to India, she joined [[Femina (India)|''Femina'']], a [[The Times of India|''Times of India'']] publication, from its inaugural issue in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041114/asp/look/story_3984806.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041115062840/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041114/asp/look/story_3984806.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2004 |title=The Telegraph – Calcutta : Look |work=The Telegraph|location=India |date=14 November 2004 |access-date=23 October 2013}}</ref><br />
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After a market research agency study in 1989 the management of Femina decided that the reader's interest had shifted from family and home to personal care. Femina also initiated the [[Femina Miss India|Miss India]] shows in India.<ref name=Dewey>{{cite book|title=Making Miss India Miss World|author=Susan Dewey|publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]]|date=2008|isbn=978-0-8156-3176-7|url=https://archive.org/details/makingmissindiam0000dewe|access-date=23 January 2013|url-access=registration}}</ref> It held the rights to choose Indian candidates for the [[Miss Universe]], [[Miss World]], Teen Princess, Miss Asia Pacific and other titles. Vimla Patil, the editor of [[Femina (India)|Femina]] from 1959 to 1993, described the role that the pageant and the magazine had to play in creation of national identity: "When India became independent, there were, because of various states in India, different kinds of women. There was a [[Maharashtrians|Maharashtrian]] woman, there was a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi woman]], but nobody had identified what was an Indian woman. There was a question mark there. Who is the Indian woman? Nobody knew. Who was going to put all these threads together and make one fabric? That was the question. And the answer to that was Femina and Miss India."<ref name=Dewey/><br />
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In 2011, Vimla Patil edited "Fabulous Thali Meals By Chetana".<ref>Fabulous Thali Meals By Chetana, Chetana Pvt. Ltd, 2011, {{ISBN|81-85300-60-7}}</ref> She wrote a regular column "Evesdropping" for New Woman Magazine on social issues. She expresses her views on strong women-oriented issues, exchanges her ideas on controversial subjects, and debates on sensitive topics concerning women.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newwomanindia.com/evesdropping.htm |title=India's No.1 English Women's Monthly Magazine |work=Newwomanindia.com |access-date=24 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185842/http://www.newwomanindia.com/evesdropping.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Patil died on 29 September 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Femina's first Editor, Vimla Patil no more |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/feminas-first-editor-vimla-patil-no-more-137621.html |access-date=27 October 2024 |website=exchange4media |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Positions==<br />
* Board member, Tiger Watch NGO, Ranthambhore,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tigerwatch.net/board_members.htm |title=Tiger India – Wildlife – Ranthambhore – Rajasthan – Ranthambore |publisher=Tiger Watch |access-date=24 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192950/http://www.tigerwatch.net/board_members.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Fritjof Capra (1987). ''Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with remarkable people'', p.&nbsp;302–306 & 309 Century Hutchinson Ltd, London. {{ISBN|0-00-654341-3}}, {{ISBN|978-0-00-654341-1}}.<br />
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