Hisila Yami

Who is Hisila Yami?

Hisila Yami, nom de guerre Parvati, is a Nepalese politician and architect. She is a Central Committee member of Communist Party of Nepal and a former president of the All Nepal Women's Association.

Her father Dharma Ratna Yami was a Nepalese freedom fighter, author and government deputy minister.

Yami graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, India, in 1982. She completed her M. Arch. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in U.K. in 1995.

During the 1990 uprising against the panchayat regime, Yami was one of the most high-profile women leaders in the protests. She was also the General Secretary of All India Nepalese Students' Association, 1981–1982. She was a lecturer at Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus from 1983 to 1996. In 1995 she became the President of the All Nepal Women's Association and served a two-year term. She went underground in 1996 after the inception of the Communist Party of Nepal led People's War. Since 2001, she has been a Central Committee Member of CPN and has worked in departments such as the International Department of the organization.