On her website, Gloria Steinem describes herself as a “feminist organizer”, a doer, as most women are. Until the end, she hosted Talking Circles, at her New York home, where people gathered do the rough-and-tumble work of activism, but also the gentler work of community building. This “movement building” is what Steinem will always be remembered for.The practice of gathering in a group, where everyone is heard, was inspired by India, where Steinem spent two years, after she graduated at 22, from Smith College, Massachusetts, in the U.S. in 1956.She studied in Delhi University’s Miranda House for a year, during which time she later said she learnt about social justice. “She spoke about this when she visited the college a little over a decade ago,” says the principal, who was then the Women’s Development Cell convener, Bijayalaxmi Nanda. In college here, she also learnt to tie a saree.She came to India every few years, and was closely associated with Ruchira Gupta, who founded Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a non-profit working to end sex trafficking. Steinem chaired Apne Aap’s advisory board, and for Ms. Gupta, she was “a third parent”.Ms. Gupta says their relationship went back to the 1990s. “She had heard about my work through mutual friends and wanted to see it. I took her in an autorickshaw into the slums of Delhi, where I was organising some women. It began to rain, and I hoped the women would show up,” she says. There, in front of a tumbledown building, Steinem spoke to the women about the abortion she had had in her youth. “She spoke in English; I translated, but the women connected with her story. They began to speak about their experiences with abortion.” Later, Steinem told Ms. Gupta something she will always remember: “Honour your sister with the truth.”With Steinem, she co-edited As if Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader, essays by Steinem, on feminist thought.Besides this, Steinem wrote nine books, including The Truth Will Set You Free, But First it Will Piss You Off!, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, and her memoir that is slated for release internationally in September this year, called An Unexpected Life. She was also the founder-editor of Ms. magazine, about which the documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print, was made [on JioHotstar, in India].