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Tara Ali Baig (1916-1989) was a social reformer, writer, and first Asian woman President of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva. She was born in Mussoorie on 8 August 1916 and went to school in Darjeeling, Switzerland and Dhaka. She married the diplomat Mirza Rashid Ali Baig and was famous artist Anjolie Ela Menon’s aunt. In 1937 she was appointed to the first Planning Committee as the convener of a group to examine the social and economic disabilities of women. Shortly after Independence her husband was posted abroad, and during their tour she established the Women’s International Club in Indonesia and later a similar club in Iran. When her husband became Chief of Protocol in Delhi she built up the Indian Council for Child Welfare of which she later became President, and she also helped Indira Gandhi (q.v.) to Indianise the style of entertainment for state banquets at Rashtrapati Bhavan. In 1977 she was elected president of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva, the first Asian and the first woman to hold the post. She was a member of the Tibetan Homes Foundation and was president of the SOS Children’s Villages of India for 22 years (1967 to 1989).