Ms. Rajni tilak: author, human right champion, feminist leader & institution builder

Ms. Rajni Tilak was a renowned writer, critique and editor of several books. She edited Abhimooknayak, from August 1996 to November 1999, when its founder, editor and publisher, her younger brother, was on his sabbatical in Australia. She founded Andolit, a magazine voicing the issues, concerns and struggles of Women. She is accredited with writing first non-Marathi book on Savitri Bai Phule titled as Bharat Ki Pahli Shikshika Savitribai Phule in 1998. She edited several volumes of Samkaleen Bhartiya Dalit Mahila Lekhan. She translated and re-wrote autobiographies of Shantabai Dani and Shanta Krishna Kamble in Hindi titled as Dhoop Chhanv and Naza.

She authored more than a hundred poems and published poetry books titled as Padchaap (2000) and Hava Si Bechain Yuvatiyan (2015). She wrote her biography Apni Zameen Apna Aasmaan (2017). She also authored several other books, including Muktikami Dalit Nayikaayen (2012), Dr Ambedkar aur Mahila Andolan (2012), Dalit Stree Vimarsh aur Patrakarita (2016). Several of her works are yet to be published. These are Premchand Ki Sampoorn Streeparak Kahaniyan, Dr Ambedkar: Stree Chintan Ke Dastawez, Hamne Itihas Ghada Hai. She also authored 100 of others articles for Abhimooknayak and other newspapers and magazines, published from different parts of India.