Auto Queens

Mohana

Mohanasundari is the President of the Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam (VPMS). A former beautician and small business owner, she became an auto driver during the pandemic. Mohana has been relentlessly organising and fighting against patriarchal prejudice towards women drivers in the transport sector in Chennai for over six years. She has also gained recognition for her work by winning the Kamala Bhasin Award for Gender Equality in 2025 and the Devi Award 2026 by The Indian Express for innovation in her field.

Leela Rani

Leela Rani is one of the first women auto drivers in Chennai She serves as the treasurer of Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam.

Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam (Brave Womens' Progressive Union)

Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam (VPMS) is a pioneering union organising and supporting women in the transportation sector in the city of Chennai and the larger state of Tamil Nadu. In 2025, VPMS transitioned into a co-operative becoming the first to do so in the transportation sector in Tamil Nadu that is worker-owned, and led entirely by women. Starting with auto drivers the co-op has now expanded to include women in various transportation jobs like delivery workers, cab drivers, and petrol bunk workers, among others.

Sraiyanti

Sraiyanti is a cinematographer and director from Tamil Nadu. Shaped by the rise of authoritarian politics in India, and inspired by her state’s rationalist movement, her work sits at the intersections of caste, class, and gender. Sraiyanti has directed Tambram Cooking, a non-fiction short screened at New York Indian Film Festival, 2023. As a cinematographer, her work includes the feature film Gargi and the short, The Feast, which won the Special Jury Prize at Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival in 2024.

Mohana

Leela Rani

Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam (Brave Womens' Progressive Union)

Sraiyanti

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