[2] As well as publishing poetry and fiction it addresses social issues in Uttarakhand, and features the stories of "ordinary" women who have dared to challenge taboos.
[3] Women from this popular campaign were encouraged in the 1990s to support the movement to separate from Uttar Pradesh, which in 2000 led to an independent Uttarakhand.
Bhatt has said they were betrayed by male politicians who made promises about several issues of great concern to women but who then backtracked.
She also criticised the way men expected the women who had contributed to the independence movement to go back to a less politically active life once the new state was established.
[4] Dr. Uma Bhatt is a linguist in the Department of Hindi at Kumaon University, Nainital, with a specialist knowledge of Himalayan languages.