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Ela Bhatt is a writer, an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972. She has received various awards like Ramon Magsaysay Award (1977), the Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Padma Bhushan(1986). Bhatt's book has been translated into Gujarati, Urdu, and Hindi and is currently being translated into French and Tamil.