In Retrospect: War-Time Memories and Thoughts on Women's Movement

Viya Munsi was born on the 5th of December 1919. in Bombay in a Gujarati family, to a lawyer father and social activist mother. She ranked first among girl and third among all student her matriculation examination under the Bombay University, and studied up to intermediate science at the Elphinstone colleges, . In 1938, she travelled to England to study medicine but discontinued her sBombaytufied after three years and become a full-fledged activist with communist movement and become the secretary of the Federation of Indian students societies in Great Britain and Ireland. She attends the first foundation conference of the World Federation of Democratic youth in London, and the Women international democratic federation of the democratic youth on the preparatory committee of the south-east Asia youth conference held in Calcutta, in February, the same year.