Brinda Karat
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Brinda Karat বৃন্দা কারাট MP |
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| Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Member of Parliament – Rajya Sabha | |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Constituency | West Bengal |
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17 October 1947 Calcutta, West Bengal, Dominion of India |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Spouse(s) | Prakash Karat |
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Brinda Karat (Bengali: বৃন্দা কারাট) (born 17 October 1947) is a communist politician from India, elected to the Rajya Sabha as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) member, on 11 April 2005 for West Bengal.
In 2005, she became the first woman member of the CPI(M) Politburo. She has also been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) from 1993 to 2004, and thereafter its Vice-President.
Brinda Karat was born in Calcutta, where she spent her early childhood in a family of four siblings, including one brother and three sisters. Her father was Sooraj Lal Das. She lost her mother Oshrukona Mitra, at the age of five. She has a sister, Radhika Roy who is married to Prannoy Roy.
Brinda was educated at the elite Welham Girls School in Dehradun and, at 16, went on to do her B.A. Degree at Miranda House, a college affiliated to the University of Delhi. In 1971, she enrolled for her M.A.in History at the University of Calcutta
In 1967, after graduation from Miranda House, she left for London, where she worked with Air India at Bond Street for four years. While working for Air India, she campaigned against the mandatory wearing of skirts in the airlines rather than the saree.The Air India. headquarters finally agreed with her and ever since then women working for the airline in London can exercise a choice of whether to wear a saree or a skirt as their uniform.
In an interview, Karat says she returned to India motivated to work for the people. While working in London, she became associated with the anti-imperialist, and anti-war movements during the Vietnam War and Marxist ideology. She joined many of the anti war demonstrations in London.
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