Activism
Since the 1960s, Miranda House has been a hotbed for political activism. In 1970, a hallowed tradition of the college, the Miss Miranda beauty contest, was abolished by an overwhelming majority of students despite strong opposition by the principal and influential faculty members. Led by the president of the Student Union, feminist activist Madhu Kishwar, the students protested against beauty being the criterion for the contest.
During the Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984, students of Miranda House organized relief camps for the victims. Film-maker Shonali Bose, who was a student at Miranda, made the Sikh riots the subject of her first award-winning and critically acclaimed film Amu.
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