Meher Pestonji

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Meher Pestonji (born September 19, 1946 in Bombay ) is an Indian social worker , journalist and writer . It belongs to the community of Parsis and lives with her two daughters in Mumbai . She is considered a critical and committed human rights activist and is particularly committed to children's rights and the improvement of living conditions in the slums of Mumbai.

She made substantial contributions in the 1970s in the rape case of 16-year-old Mathura, which ultimately led to a change in the law, and in the 1990s in coming to terms with the Mumbai uprisings. Her story Outsider describes the fate of Indian street children in contrast to the increasing affluence of the middle classes and has been included in the focus of the Abitur in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia . In Sadak Chhaap (German: Signs of the Road ) she describes the 10-year-old Rahul who lives on the street and finds an abandoned baby on a platform, which he adopts and raises.

A detailed review of Meher Pestonji's works can be found in the anthology Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature .

Books

  • Mixed Marriage and Other Parsi Stories. HarperCollins, 1999.
  • Pervez. HarperCollins, 2002.
  • Sadak Chhaap. Penguin India, 2006. (French: Mercure de France, 2007)
    • The children of Bombay. translated by Anna Opel. Angkor Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-936018-72-1 .
  • Outsider. In: Rudolph F. Rau (Ed.): Emerging India. ISBN 978-3-425-04852-9 .

Plays and films

  • Piano for sale
  • Feeding crows
  • Outsider

Interviews

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  1. ↑ SAWNET: Bookshelf: Meher Pestonji. (No longer available online.) In: sawnet.org. Archived from the original on January 10, 2015 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sawnet.org
  2. ^ Emerging India. In: diesterweg.de . Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-425-04852-9 .
  3. ↑ rahulvasisht: SADAK CHHAAP - MEHER PESTONJI. In: mouthshut.com. November 29, 2005, accessed January 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Sadak Chhaap by Meher Pestonji ( Memento from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: indsight.org
  5. ^ Monika Gupta: Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2000, ISBN 81-7156-959-5 , p. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Pestonji, Meher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay