- Hisila Yami
Hisila Yami, alias Parvati (born
June 25 1959 inKathmandu ), is aNepal ese politician and architect. She is apolitburo member ofCommunist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and a former president of theAll Nepal Women's Association (Revolutionary) .Yami graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture in
Delhi ,India , in1982 .During the
1990 uprising against the panchayat regime, Yami was one of the most high-profile women leaders in the protests.After going underground, she made her first public appearance on
June 18 ,2003 , during the then ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the Maoists. [http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue150/fromthenepalipress.htm]In early
2005 she was, along with Bhattarai andDina Nath Sharma , demoted by the party leadership. In July she was reinstated into the politburo.On
April 1 ,2007 Hisila Yami joined the interim government of Nepal as Minister of Physical Planning and Work. [http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=105357] Following a Maoist boycott of the government from September to December 2007, Yami was again sworn in as Minister of Physical Planning onDecember 31 2007 . [ [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9949833B-D2E3-4620-859E-64025536CB66.htm "Nepal swears in Maoist ministers"] , Al Jazeera, December 31, 2007.]Yami is married to fellow Maoist leader Dr.
Baburam Bhattarai . Her sister, Timila Yami, is CEO of Design Co. Pvt. Ltd.Bibliography
* Yami, Hisila and Bhattarai, Baburam, "Marxbad ra mahila mukti". Kathmandu: Utprerak Prakashan, 2000.
* Hisila Yami (comrade Parvati) Peoples War and Women's Liberation in Nepal - Purvaiya Prakashan, Raipur, Chhattishgarth, India 2006
References
External links
* [http://www.monthlyreview.org/1105parvati.htm People’s Power in Nepal] - Article in
Monthly Review by Yami
* [http://sendika.org/yazi.php?yazi_no=3743 Turkish version of the article]
* [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0203parvati.htm Comments by Yami in Monthly Review]
* [http://www.cpnm.org/worker/issue5/article_parvati.htm Women's Participation in People's War in Nepal]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5387419 NPR Interview with Comrade Parvati]
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