Chhaya Datar (also Chāyā Dātāra born 1944) is an Indian activist, writer and feminist.
[1] She wrote her first collection of short stories in Marathi, Goshta Sādhī Saral Sopī in 1972 and her second, Vartulacha Ant in 1977.
[1] She is also one of the founders of a publishing group based in Bombay, called Stri Uvach (A Woman Said).
[4] In Signs, reviewer Chandra Talpade Mohanty, writes that Datar's Waging Change is an "elegantly crafted, detailed analysis of the organizational history of women bidi (hand-rolled cigarette) workers.
"[4] In her autobiographical story, In Search of Myself, she examines her own experiences and describes how communing with one's own tribal space allows women to have a sense of freedom.