“The future will always unite her name of initiation Sister Nivedita to that of her beloved Master...as St Clara to that of St Francis, although of a truth the imperious Swami was far from possessing the meekness of the Poverello and submitted those who gave themselves to him, to heart-searching tests before he accepted them. But her love was so deep; Nivedita did not keep in her memory his harshness – only his sweetness.” - Romain Rolland The above quote from Romain Rolland highlights St. Clara and Sister Nivedita’s subjectivity as religious women within the larger global patriarchal structure of the religious monastic orders (both Christian and Hindu). But, how should we read Sister Nivedita’s story in the 21st Century as feminist academics passionate about equal rights of human beings, irrespective of gender differences? This reflection paper is an attempt to analyse Nivedita’s life and work through critical and interpretive feminist perspectives in order to answer this question.