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The Brilliant Women Entrepreneurs of India: The Roles They Play & the...
Even as India continues its rapid economic growth, women in the country struggle against discrimination and inequality. Role of Women Social Entrepreneurs A British Council study on the social...
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Beyond Loss & Abuse: The Inspiring Story of How a Woman Stitched Her Way to...
In a country of 1.3 billion people, making ends meet is a daily ritual for many underprivileged people. Not many can come out on top in spite of braving all hardships. But India’s diversity is such...
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This Warm 78-Year-Old ‘Campus Nani’ Teaches You How to Pick Yourself up and...
Prema Iyer, 78 years old, was born into a traditional middle class Iyer family. Her father was a Central government employee, and her mother, a housewife. From the age of three, Prema has lived in...
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This Independence Day, Let’s Pay a Tribute to the 10 Forgotten Women Warriors...
The freedom struggle is filled with tales of thousands of warriors, who fought till their last breath. Stripped of their titles and humiliated, these nobles, royals, and commoners did not give up, and...
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The First Woman With Her Own Talk Show in Bundelkhand Shares What Freedom...
Khabar Lahariya Digital Head and anchor of The Kavita Show, spoke at length about freedom, women, and the freedom of women, in the latest episode of her show. Blame it on Virginia Woolf and her room...
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Here’s What Shattering of Menstrual Taboos & Access to Hygiene Did to an...
Sulochana Pednekar is an award winning social worker, who has changed the lives of more than 2000 school girls. Born in a remote village called Siolim in Goa, she was raised by a single mother, who...
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Want to Shift to Eco-Friendly Menstrual Products? Get Inspired by These Women
My grandmother’s generation used cloth pads during their periods. However, for my generation today, we can’t imagine periods without sanitary pads. The convenience of the pads is so high that we do not...
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Belly Dancing to Film Making: This Project Is Letting Women Crush Barriers...
Bengaluru-based Project DEFY is currently raising funds to finance a Fellowship that will provide six young women stipends, mentorship and resources to realise their dreams. A small group of young...
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Here is How India Helps its Women in Tech
Last week, Google was in the news for all the wrong reasons! An engineer, James Damore, sent out a 10-page anti-women rant on how the company’s diversity policies may be as harmful to it, as its...
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This Indian Woman’s Marriage in Britain Is Breaking the Internet for the...
Love transcends all boundaries and the story of two women who found love despite cultural and religious differences only adds substance to the phrase. Kalavati Mistry and Miriam Jefferson have become...
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Hiding in plain sight; Rangoli, Kolam designs and what they mean
Every day, my mother religiously performed a ritual. Rain or shine, she never skipped this ritual even for a day. Every day, she drew enchanting kolam patterns using rice flour. Here is an example of a...
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Mocked for Being a ‘Woman Studying Genetics,’ How Rachel Carson Got DDT Banned
The Better India is partnering with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), a film that documents former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s quest to find out how human ingenuity and passion can...
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Warriors Never Quit: How a 21 Year Old Overcame Her Battle With Cancer
Lavania Nagarajan I went to see the doctor for my annual medication refill for my colostomy bag. I have had an imperforate anus since I was born, which resulted in having a permanent colostomy bag....
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Here’s How Surekha Yadav Became India’s First Woman Train Driver, 30 Years Ago!
While women boarded trains in the 1980’s, Surekha Yadav was driving them. Surekha, now 51, became India’s first female passenger train driver in 1988. The Indian Railways, a traditionally...
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10,000 Toilets and Counting: Bihar’s Women Are Single-Handedly Taking on the...
Poonam, in her mid-40s, is the head of Ujwal Gram Sanghatan, a women’s self-help group (SHG) in Kalanaur village. She is one of the thousands of jeevika didis (livelihood sisters). Nageena, who heads...
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Why a Fashion Designer Left Her High-Flying Job to Rear Goats in a Remote...
A promising student from NIIFT, Mohali, Shweta Tomar had her boutique until 2015 and could have been a successful fashion designer today. But she chose a different path and started goat rearing in a...
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How One Home Maker Became a Paddy Farmer, Floriculturist and a Village Leader
“We were losing our new chickens fast. To save the remaining 250, we called the local veterinary doctor. Our women could not afford his vaccination fee of three rupees per chick. For the landless...
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1 Billion Steps: Here’s Why One Woman Will Walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir
Being an armchair critic has become something that many of us do with great ease. But how many of us get off our chairs and take a step towards change? Sristhi Bakshi, who has taken that first step and...
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Mocked for Being a ‘Woman Studying Genetics,’ How Rachel Carson Got DDT Banned
The Better India is partnering with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), a film that documents former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s quest to find out how human ingenuity and passion can...
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Warriors Never Quit: How a 21-Year-Old Overcame Her Battle With Cancer
Lavania Nagarajan I went to see the doctor for my annual medication refill for my colostomy bag. I have had an imperforate anus since I was born, which resulted in having a permanent colostomy bag....
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