Lalita is a Member of the Anveshi Executive Committee and Director of Think Soft Consultants, Hyderabad. Her research interests include feminist politics, caste, political movements, health, development, and urban and rural poverty.
Lalita is a Member of the Anveshi Executive Committee and Director of Think Soft Consultants, Hyderabad. Her research interests include feminist politics, caste, political movements, health, development, and urban and rural poverty.
Lalita has been associated with the women’s movement in Hyderabad since the 1970s. She was a founder member of Progressive Organisation of Women (POW) and one of the key organisers of Stree Shakti Sanghatana from the mid-70s to mid-80s. She was also a founder member and the first Coordinator of Anveshi between 1985-1996.
Lalita is on the advisory boards of many local and national civil society groups: Godavari Vedika, Civil Society Dialogue on Godavari River Mid-Basin for Exploring Ways of Effective Utilization of Waters, Andhra Pradesh, since 2003; Institutional Ethical Committee, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), since 2003; Yugantar: A Voice for Concerned Dissent and Deepening Democracy; Mahila Sanatkar, 2001-2003; Mahila Samakhya, Government of India, 1997-2001; Executive Council, Andhra Pradesh Mahila Samatha, 1997-2001; Advisory Committee, Bhumika. She was the South Asia Coordinator for the project on Gender, Citizenship, Governance, at Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands, 1999-2002.
Select Publications
- Savaalaksha Sandehaalu: Streelu-Aarogyam, Samskruti, Rajakeeyalu (A Hundred Thousand Doubts: Women’s Health, Culture, Politics) Hyderabad: Anveshi Health Collective & Hyderabad Book Trust, 2006. Co-editor. (Co-authored the first edition of this book published by Stree Shakti Sanghatana in 1991; part of the editorial group of the English health book, Taking Charge of Our Bodies, New Delhi: Penguin, 2004.
- Mantrajalam Doctorlada Mantrasanulada? (A translation into Telugu of Witches, Midwives and Nurses by B. Ehrenreich and D. English). Hyderabad: Anveshi, 1994.
- Women Writing in India: Vol. 1: 600 B.C. to the Early 20th Century & Vol. 2: The 20th Century. New York: Feminist Press, New Delhi: OUP, 1990-1993. Co-author.
- ‘We Were Making History…’: Life Stories of Women in the Telangana People’s Struggle. New Delhi: Kali Press and London: Zed Books, 1989. Co-editor.
- Manaku Teliyani Mana Charitra. Hyderabad: Stree Shakti Sangatana, 1986. Co-editor
- Indian Women in Subsistence and Agricultural Labour (assisted Maria Mies), Geneva: ILO, 1986.