Subhashini Ali

Subhasini Ali (born 29 December 1947) is an Indian Marxist politician. She is a Polit Buro Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She is also the former President of the All India Democratic Women's Association and former Member of Parliament from Kanpur.

Subhashini Ali Sehgal
Subhashini Ali in 2019
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1989–1991
ConstituencyKanpur
Preceded byNaresh Chandra Chaturvedi
Succeeded byJagat Vir Singh Drona
President, All India Democratic Women's Association
Succeeded byJagmati Sangwan
Member of Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
In office
2015–Incumbent
Personal details
Born (1947-12-29) 29 December 1947
Kanpur, United Provinces, India
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
SpouseMuzaffar Ali (separated)
RelationsAmmu Swaminathan (grandmother),Prem Sehgal (father), Lakshmi Sehgal (mother), Mrinalini Sarabhai (aunt), Mallika Sarabhai (cousin)
ChildrenShaad Ali
Residence(s)VIP Road, Civil Lines, Kanpur
Alma materWomen's Christian College,[1] Kanpur University
As of 27 January, 2007

Early life and education

Subhashini Ali is the daughter of Colonel Prem Sehgal and Captain Lakshmi Sehgal (née Dr. Lakshmi Swaminathan)[2] who were a part of the Indian National Army. She attended Welham Girls' School in Dehradun.[3] She did her bachelor's degree from Women's Christian College in Madras and later did her master's degree from the Kanpur University.

Political career
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As a trade Unionist and leader of the All India Democratic Women's Association, she was once very influential in the politics of Kanpur where the Communist Party of India (CPI) held sway over trade unions and which elected CPI-supported S.M. Banerjee to Lok Sabha four times from 1957 to 1971. This influence of CPI helped her win the General elections of 1989 to the parliament and she defeated her nearest rival BJP candidate by 56,587 votes from Kanpur. The CPI influence waned after the emergency in 1977 and she lost the General elections of 1996 by 151,090 votes. She finished at the fifth place in the General elections of 2004 polling only 4558 votes (0.74%). She fought the General elections of 2014 from Barrackpore as a CPI(M) candidate but lost.

She is currently a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She was inducted to the polit bureau (PB) of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2015 thereby becoming the second women member in PB after Brinda Karat.

Ali published her translation of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels into Hindi in 2019.[4]

Films

Subhashini Ali designed period costumes for 1981 classic, Umrao Jaan, directed by her then-husband Muzaffar Ali. She also dabbles in amateur acting, and her first starring role was in Asoka in 2001, followed by an English feature, The Guru, in 2002, and was seen again in 2005, with her fellow party member, Brinda Karat in the film Amu.[5]

She inspired the film Anjuman (1986) directed by Muzaffar Ali with her struggles in Kanpur with the AIDWA.

Personal life

She was previously married to filmmaker Muzaffar Ali. Their son Shaad Ali is a film maker who is most well known for directing Saathiya, Bunty aur Babli, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and Ok Jaanu. He married Shazmeen Hussain, daughter of famous conceptual artist Rummana Hussain and businessman Ishaat Hussain, in 2006 but they divorced in 2011. In 2013, he married Aarti Patkar.[6][7][8][9]

Ali is an Atheist.[10] She is the cousin of Indian classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai, daughter of her mother's sister Mrinalini Sarabhai and scientist Vikram Sarabhai.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Crusader for the women's cause". The Hindu. 19 December 2002. Archived from the original on 24 March 2003. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  2. LAXMI SEHGAL: THE DOCTOR WHO SOLDIERS ON Archived 11 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine the-south-Asian, October 2001.
  3. Fernandes, Vivek (21 July 2001). "The Subhashini Ali 5 Questions". rediff.com. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
  4. "Communist Party of INDIA (Marxist) and author Subhashini Ali before launching her book "Hindi Translation of the Communist Manifesto", at Constitution Club in New Delhi". The Hindu. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. Subhashini Ali at IMDb
  6. "Finally, the director at home". Hindustan Times. 29 January 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  7. "Shaad Ali ties the knot again - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  8. "With OK Jaanu, Shaad Ali is remaking another Mani Ratnam film: Is OK Kanmani the best choice?". Firstpost. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  9. Cotter, Holland (18 July 1999). "Rummana Hussain, 47, Indian Conceptual Artist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  10. "There are religions that have very rigid rules and there are others that don't. Religion is something that I, as a person, am not interested in. I have always been an atheist. My parents were atheists. It doesn't bother me if somebody is religious. My problem is when religion is used to institutionalise other things."The Rediff Interview/ Subhasini Ali, 8 August 2001 (accessed 21 April 2008).
  11. "Ali's Karat and family 'factors'". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
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