Kamla Mankekar

Kamla Mankekar (–2018) was an Indian journalist, author, and social activist. She is best known as one of the early female journalists in the independent India. Her family fled West Punjab for India as refugees during Partition.

In Delhi, she studied at the refugee camp college, and took evening postgraduate classes in journalism. In 1950, she started working for The Times of India, where she was a writer, sub-editor, and film critic.

In 1958, she married D.R. Mankekar, author and former editor of both The Indian Express and The Times of India. They would go on to co-author the book Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi. Women in India (1975) Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi (1977, with D.R. Mankekar) Nagendra Singh, A Many Splendoured Life (1998) Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance (2002, with Sushila Nayar) Culture and Religious Traditions in Temples of Goa (2004) Breaking News: A Woman in a Man's World (2014)