Manabi Bandyopadhyay

Manabi Bandyopadhyay (born 1964 or 1965) is the first openly transgender Indian college principal.

Career Bandyopadhyay served as an associate professor of Bengali and philosophy at Vivekananda Satobarshiki Mahavidyalaya.

She became the Principal of Krishnagar Women's College on 7 June 2015

Writing She has written several books in the Bengali literature, and a biography, A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi, which was co-authored by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. She runs India's first transgender magazine, Abomanob which is now an annual magazine which runs for more than 26 years.

Personal life She has an adopted son named Debashish. She has also acted in Nagarkirtan directed by Koushik Ganguly.