M. K. Binodini Devi

Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi (Meitei: ꯕꯤꯅꯣꯗꯤꯅꯤ; born Sana Wangol ; 6 February 1922 – 17 January 2011), better known as Binodini, was a writer, poet, and princess from Manipur. She worked in multiple genres, including fiction, essays, drama, screenplays, lyrics, and ballet scripts often addressing themes such as patriarchy and colonialism in Manipuri society. A social activist and pioneer of post-modernism in Manipur, she is regarded as a cultural renaissance figure. She received the Padma Shri in 1976, and her historical novel Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (1976) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in…