It has been just over a week since I received the news that my dear friend Anita Ghai was in the ICU. The next day she had left us. I had known Anita for over four decades since our days as undergraduate students of Psychology at Indraprastha College. Knowing Anita was a transformative experience. It was through our many conversations that I began to have some sense of living with a disabled body in an ableist world.
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Gone too soon. A huge loss to the Disability sector. She was part of our many National Programs. May her onward journey be peaceful
Thank you for writing this obituary, Prof. Johri! Prof. Ghai’s Hypatia essay on disability being an excluded agenda of Indian feminism was a transformative read for those of us beginning in disability studies in the early 2000s.
Take care.
Irreparable loss to the field of disability studies. But her work shall continue to inspire