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How IAS Rohini Became Salem’s 1st Woman District Collector in 170 Years!
For over 170 years, no woman ever held the post of the district collector at Salem in Tamil Nadu. A record of 170 collectors and none was a woman. It took the daughter of a Maharastra farmer to smash...
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Making History Again, India’s First Women Fighter Pilots Will Soon Take up...
When Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh were commissioned as flying officers in the Indian Air Force, they created history as the first batch of women fighter pilots inducted in the...
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Medics in AP are Discreetly Providing HIV Treatment to Sex Trafficked Women
By Anuradha Nagaraj Every day the medics quietly enter villages around Kadiri town in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and do their rounds. They stop at village squares to say the occasional...
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Watch: A Supportive Father Shows What Role Men Must Play in Empowering Their...
Today, the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child celebrates and recognises the rights of girls and the challenges that they face worldwide. This story highlights the experience of a...
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She Does Her Duty and She Wins Marathons! This Lady Cop Is an Inspiration
Shobha Desai is a woman of all trades. She is a police officer, an athlete and a mother of a 12-year-old. It is, however, her love for athletics and its active pursuit that makes her stand out as a...
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For Just Rs 50 per Head, These UP Women Are Crowd Sourcing Their Own Healthcare!
Champa’s young daughter was suffering from fever and care received from the local practitioner did not help. There was no option but to visit the nearest hospital in the block even if it meant...
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Despite Patriarchy, How Kerala’s Bullet Queen Thundered on for 12000 Km in 42...
Known as the ‘Dauntless Bullet Woman of Kerala’, Shyni Rajkumar is a trailblazer for modern day women in ways more than one. A teacher, an ex-policewoman, an athlete and a former state cricket player,...
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A Jewish NGO in Mumbai is Helping These Local Cooks Become World Famous!
Gabriel Project Mumbai (GPM) is a Jewish volunteer-based NGO that cares for vulnerable children living in the city’s slums. Their work includes tackling malnutrition, inadequate health care and...
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This Response to #MeToo is Just What We Wanted To Hear From Indian Men
Social media has become a place for women to share shockingly all-to-common experiences of sexual assault/harassment from across the world. The move is a stinging eye-opener about just how widespread...
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Meet India’s First Female Dastango – the Woman Reviving a 13th Century Urdu...
Tucked away in Old Delhi’s decrepit walls and dilapidated homes, is a treasure trove of stories, Fouzia Dastango makes come alive, as she takes her seat in the usual vajrasana on the white mattress,...
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Unsung Hero: Shila Dawre, the First Indian Woman to Become an Auto-Driver as...
When an 18-year-old Shila Dawre decided to leave her parental home in Parbhani district to go to Pune, all she had was Rs 12 in hand and passion in her eyes to chase her dreams. No more was she going...
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How a Determined IAS Officer’s Wife Transformed an Underdeveloped Bihar Village
The term ‘village head’ generally brings to minds images of stout kurta-clad men with impressive moustaches and turbans. The mukhia of Singhwahini village in Bihar is a notable exception. Petite and...
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Trouble Conceiving? This Portal Will Bust Infertility Myths While Helping You
Our society is inquisitive by nature, especially when it comes to someone’s most personal and intimate life. One of the standard FAQs around here is, “When are you getting married and settling down?”...
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#MeToo: Know the Laws That Protect You From Sexual Assault and Harassment
Recently if you visited Twitter or Facebook, you must have seen innumerable posts with the #metoo hashtag. The world has united to raise voices against sexual assault or any form of sexual harassment....
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Kudumbashree: How Re-Thinking Poverty & Gender Changed 5 Million Lives in Kerala
The countryside around Thrissur, Kerala is paddy rich and filled with gangly coconut trees. And if you glance up one, you just might see a strange device – seemingly out of place on its narrow trunk....
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No Farmer Commits Suicide in Hinglajwadi, and It’s All Thanks to Women....
Droughts, repeated crop failures and overburdening debts are the primary reasons why farmers in India are left with no option other than taking their lives—sometimes it is an entire family that...
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The Untold Story of the Brave Maratha Warrior Queen Ahilyabai Holkar!
“In latter days from Brahma came, To rule our land, a noble dame, Kind was her heart and bright her fame, Ahilya was her honoured name,” writes poet Joanna Baillie in 1849 in honour of one of the...
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This Big-Bodied Yoga Practitioner Wants to Prove Anyone Can Do Yoga!
Six years ago, Dolly Singh, a media professional, went to Hampi in Karnataka for a trek. At the time, she weighed around 85 kg to 90 kg. While on the trek, Dolly lost her balance and slipped, which...
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Karnataka Mulls Special Policy, May Grant 50% Reservation Under KSRTC Driver...
In a move to encourage more and more women to take the wheel, the Karnataka Government is formulating a special policy. Under this, over 50% of driver posts will be reserved for women in state-run bus...
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All You Need to Know About Karnataka’s First Woman DG-IGP, Neelamani N Raju
Marking a milestone for women in the police force, Karnataka, for the first time, appointed a woman as the state’s police chief. Meet Veteran IPS officer, Neelamani N Raju, the first woman Director...
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