Sudha Bharadwaj

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Sudha Bharadwaj
Bharadwaj in 2020
Born(1961-11-01)1 November 1961
Massachusetts, United States
NationalityIndia
OccupationTrade unionist, activist, lawyer
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Sudha Bharadwaj (born November 1, 1961)[2] is a trade-unionist, activist and lawyer who has lived and worked in Chhattisgarh for over three decades. She is an active member of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakrta Committee).[3]

Life[edit | edit source]

Early life[edit | edit source]

Sudha was born in Boston and lived in the United States and United Kingdom as a child.[4] Sudha's mother, Krishna Bharadwaj, was a well known academic and economist, who had founded the Centre for Economics Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University. At age 11, she moved with her mother to Delhi.[5]

She joined the integrated mathematics (five year) program of IIT Kanpur in 1979.[5] At IIT Kanpur she joined NSS, teaching in the caste-ridden rural neighborhood.[6] After finishing the program at IITK in 1984, she taught at DPS, for a couple of years in Delhi.[6]

Arrest[edit | edit source]

On 28 August 2018, along with other lawyers, writers and activists, Sudha was arrested and charged with UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case.[7][8][9][10][11] A special NIA court granted Sudha Bharadwaj, accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case, bail, on a surety of Rs 50,000 on 8 December, 2021 after an incarceration of over three years.[12]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Row in JNU after Dean replaces speaker invited by centre for economic studies". The Indian Express. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "As Sudha Bharadwaj Spends 4th Birthday in Jail, a Reminder That UAPA Enables Her Incarceration". The Wire. Retrieved 2 December 2021. Sudha Bharadwaj's birthday coincides with the Chhattisgarh state formation day on November 1.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "CMM (Mazdoor Karyakarta Committee) - a political engagement of Sudha Bharadwaj".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ Slater, Joanna (28 September 2018). "India's government is arresting lawyers and activists amid accusations of plotting to overthrow Modi". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Masoodi, Ashwaq (7 November 2015). "This land is your land". LiveMint.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Bureau, N. H. S. (9 August 2020). "Sudha Bharadwaj: The lawyer for poor and labourers". National Herald. Retrieved 9 June 2021. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. ↑ "Why Modi and Shah Took the Bhima Koregaon Investigation Away From Maharashtra".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ "Bhima Koregaon Files: The Story Of Nine Activists Being Punished Without Trial".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ "Anand Teltumbde: How the police can fabricate evidence to suggest that anyone is an 'urban Maoist'".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "Two years of Bhima Koregaon Arrests by Nihalsing B Rathod".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ "Who Is Vernon Gonsalves, the Activist Held for 'Naxalite' Links".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ↑ "Sudha Bharadwaj, accused in Bhima Koregaon violence case, released after 3 years in jail". The Printers (Mysore) Private Ltd. Mumbai. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
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