Anita Ghai

Anita Ghai (23 October 195811 December 2024) was an Indian academic who was the president of Indian Association of Women's Studies. She was a professor at School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. She was also a disability rights activist in India working in the areas of sexuality, gender, health and education rights. She authored three books.

Early life Ghai was born on 23 October 1958. She was diagnosed with polio at the age of two. Her volume, Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience, is considered the first of its kind in South Asia.

Activism Ghai focussed on the specific concerns and experiences of disabled women. Ghai also wrote (Dis)embodied Form on the gendered politics of disability and its impact on feminist theory.

She held workshops on sexuality and disability, as part of an online course run by feminist organisation CREA. Ghai also advocates for sexuality education .

Ghai advocated for accessibility in India. and has spoken out against the Indian government's token efforts for people with disabilities.

In January 2016, Ghai claimed that she was forced to crawl on the tarmac by Air India at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi, as they failed to provide a wheelchair for her. The airline denied Ghai's allegation.

Books