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Meet the 5 Indians Who Made It to Forbes Top 100 Most Powerful Women List
Honouring women who are unstoppable, exemplary in their own right and serve as models to thousands across the nation and the world, Forbes business magazine released its 2017 list of 100 most powerful...
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This Mumbai Man Is Keeping His Promise to ‘Nirbhaya’, and Wants You to Join...
16th December 2012 is a date that Indian’s will never forget. The brutal rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) left a permanent scar on our collective memory. While the entire country was outraged...
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How Dalit Women Farmers Across Marathwada Are Fighting Exploitation and...
While the battles fought by the farmers of Marathwada are well documented, not many know about the relentless fight that marks the rise of Dalit women farmers in the drought-affected region. These...
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Is a Hunger-Free Nation Possible? With Initiatives Like These, There’s...
Indrasing’s formative years were spent watching his alcoholic father beat his mother. He grew up in such abject poverty that there would be no food in the house for days together. During this...
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Pune Woman Transforms 3,500 Sqft Plot Into Organic Garden That Feeds Three...
Pune-based Sujata Naphade was born with green fingers. She belongs to an agrarian family, and her mother-in-law is also a farmer. Her family advocates organic farming and growing up; she had always...
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From Mai Bhago to Jind Kaur: Remembering the Forgotten Warrior Women of Punjab
“Gender equality in combat roles is not a new thing for the Sikhs. We have had it for centuries. Mai Bhago is a great example!” – Harjit Singh Sajjan, Defense Minister of Canada From the legendary...
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Sunita Behera Is Being Hailed as the Gladiatrix of the East. Here’s Why!
Sunita Behera, all of 23, is the founder of the first-all-women Paika Akhada Dal in Odisha. The ‘Paika Akhada’, is the traditional martial art form of Odisha. Practising this art-form not only changed...
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30,000 Lives Impacted by This Kolkata Bank Run by and for Sex Workers
Sonagachi in Kolkata is known to be Asia’s largest red light area — it is often said that the area is a world in itself. More than 11,000 sex workers inhabit it. For the longest time, these sex-workers...
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Deepanjali Quit Her Job & Fought Social Taboos to Set up an Organic Pad...
When 26-year-old Deepanjali Dalmiya decided to quit her well-paying job as a financial consultant at Ernst & Young (New York) in 2015 and ventured into the personal hygiene sector to start her own...
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SaveAGram: Here’s How Villages Can Get Income, Tourists and Self-Esteem All...
“The future of India lies in its villages,” was what Gandhi had said. Unfortunately, these villages are today dying a slow death because the lure of the city life seems more attractive. Some estimates...
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“Why I Made My Mom Go On Her First Solo Trip”– A Millennial Daughter
We girls share a very special relationship with our mothers. They are the one person we love the most, trust the most and rely on the most. They are also the people who we fight with the most and pray...
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She Was a Child Bride & Domestic Help, Before She Became a Bestselling Author!
She was born in the beautiful valley of Kashmir. And even then, her life was anything but a bed of roses. Baby Halder’s birth mother abandoned her at the tender age of four because she refused to put...
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History Created! Navy Gets Its First Woman Pilot, First Batch of Female...
The Indian Navy on Wednesday got its first woman pilot and first batch of female officers in Naval Armament Inspection (NAI) branch. An impressive passing-out ceremony in the Indian Navy Academy,...
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MHA Chairs Meeting on Women Safety in Our Cities; Do You Have Any Suggestions?
Violence against women in India is a harsh reality. What citizens, especially women, hope to say see is that people in positions of authority respond better to their concerns. In a significant...
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Preparing to Welcome a Baby? Here Are Maternity Benefits You Are Entitled To!
Did you know women who legally adopt a child under three months of age are entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave from the date of adoption under the law? Thousands of women across India juggle...
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A People’s Officer: She is The Youngest IAS Officer to Be Appointed to a CM’s...
Smita Sabharwal may look diminutive in appearance but the no-nonsense 40-year-old has a tall list of notable achievements under her belt. A hardworking bureaucrat whose infectious passion for public...
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Sold, Tortured and Repeatedly Raped, Now Jaya Is a Guardian Angel for Sex...
“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.” —Patti Smith Prostitution in India is unregulated. And in many scenarios considered illegal. Which is why sex workers do...
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Let’s Voice Our Support for These Girls, Punching Their Way to Tokyo 2020.
The recently concluded AIBA World Women’s Youth Boxing Championships held in Guwahati saw Indian pugilists grab five top positions, thus finishing as overall champions. A minor fire mishap was the only...
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34-Year-Old Has Taken Thousands of Underprivileged “From Darkness to Light”
Growing up in the spiritual heart of India, Varanasi, a young Anchal would look on as her father, an orthopaedic surgeon, would fix the accidentally injured and mutilated fingers of farmers free of...
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Amazing! Parvathy Is Redefining Screen Space for Women in Malayalam Cinema
By receiving the Silver Peacock for her exemplary performance in the Malayalam film ‘Take Off’ at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2017, Parvathy Thiruvoth Kottuvatta, who is better known as...
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