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Married at 12, Abandoned at 13: Meet the Chhattisgarh Folk Artist Just...
She was the oldest of five children to underprivileged parents, Chunuk Lal Pardhi and Sukhwati in the remote village of Ganiyari, 15 kilometres from the city of Bhilai. Like other girls in the village,...
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Faced Tragedy & Imprisonment, Yet This Brit Lady Didn’t Stop Fighting for...
In colonial India, Nellie Sengupta was a British woman fighting for the unification of Indians against the British Raj She recalls the first night she was imprisoned in the Delhi Jail in 1931. Why?...
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These Determined ‘Napkin Destroyers’ Are Saving Earth One Sanitary Pad at a...
Krutika cannot wait to reach home after school today. She is menstruating and going through the monthly ordeal of stomach pains, bloody pads that must be wrapped in a newspaper and thrown in a dustbin...
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Meet the IPS Officer Who Made History as India’s First Woman to Head a...
On February 3, 2016, top cop Archana Ramasundaram created history by becoming the first woman to head a paramilitary force in India in over 60 years. She assumed charge as the Director General,...
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How Much Good Can Social Media Do? Here’s What Happened When a UP Cop Mom...
This weekend, a picture of Jhansi-based Constable Archana Jayant Singh, who was on duty while her six-month-old daughter slept on her table at the police station, went viral on social media. The photo,...
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Mumbai Lady Enables 4500+ Domestic Helps To Find Jobs, Fight Sexual...
It started with a 35-year-old migrant house help who walked up to Powai-based Meenakshi Jain Gupta. A single mother of two kids, the woman cried, as she was in desperate need of a job. Meenakshi was...
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Posted in Bastar, Usha Kiran Is the First Woman Officer of the Elite Commando...
Think Vogue and the mind immediately conjures images of men and women dressed in uber cool clothes and the latest trends in fashion. The Vogue Women Of The Year 2018 Awards was no different. However,...
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India Gets Its First ‘Mammomobile’ in Tamil Nadu, Thanks to This Breast...
According to a study titled “The Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Indian Women,” which was published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, breast cancer is now the most common cancer among...
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No Means No, Immaterial of Woman’s ‘Character’: SC’s All-Women Bench Delivers...
When did a ‘NO’ become a ‘Maybe’ or even a ‘Yes’? Justice R Banumathi and Justice Indira Banerjee have yet again reiterated an order they passed in Delhi v Pankaj Chaudhary and Others, that when a...
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Bullied For Being Different, She Defeated Depression & Taunts to Become a...
Growing up in the beautiful hilly city of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, Saniya felt different from the other children around her. She was a healthy male child born to wonderful parents, both of whom were...
View ArticleTime to Rethink Beauty & Bollywood Lyrics: 9 Things to Learn from Kamla Bhasin
Not long ago, we had a chance to interview development feminist activist, poet, author, and social scientist, Kamla Bhasin—and while it was every bit as insightful and inspiring as we had imagined, it...
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Jharkhand’s Women Are Using Marigolds To Earn Lakhs & Beat Illegal Opium Farming
Ranchi: Palo Devi (name changed), earned approximately Rs 40,000 in just two and a half months, while happily working amidst flowers. She no longer has to worry about her future since her husband...
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Haryana Man Turns Pad Man on Diwali, Distributes 1000 Sanitary Napkins to...
A newspaper article about how an infection that occurred due to the usage of cloth instead of sanitary pads, resulted in a woman’s death, drove Faridabad resident Ajay Kumar Bahl to embark on a...
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Inspired by Dad, Mumbai Girl Creates Diabetic-Friendly, Organic Diwali Sweets
Growing up, Mumbai-based Sarrah Kapasi had seen her own father grapple with Type 1 Diabetes. While the man managed to build a formidable empire at a young age, it came at a heavy price. The deadly form...
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These 2 Inspirational Women Prove Pinkathon is Far More Than Just a Marathon
Pinkathon is easily one of the largest women’s running events in the country. But if you dive into the stories of the empowered, resilient and liberated real-life heroes who partake in it, you soon...
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Made Of Corn & Bamboo, These Eco-Friendly Pads Are Better For You & The Earth!
Over the past two decades or so, significant strides have been made to bring conversations around women’s reproductive health into the mainstream. Yet, when it comes to menstruation, accessibility and...
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Glass Ceiling Broken: Meet Anju Seth, the First Woman Director Of India’s...
Despite being the oldest B-school in the country, in its five decades of existence, the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has never had a woman at the helm of its academic affairs. Well,...
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The Remotest Villages in Rajasthan Are Getting Education, Thanks to Women...
Kamla and Savita I had an interesting conversation with two feisty women from Rajasthan this weekend. These two women had chosen to be educators at the Ekal Vidyalaya School in rural Rajasthan. The...
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From Fetching Water for Re 1 to Earning Global Fame: A Kutch Woman’s...
This article is brought to you by Franklin Templeton Investments Born in the Kukadsar village of Gujarat’s Kutch, education was a distant dream for Pabiben. Her mother, Tejuben, was a young widow...
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Long Before #MeToo, ‘Barefoot Counsellors’ in Rural Assam Have Been...
Conversations around the #MeToo movement have primarily centred on urban women working in the formal sector. While similar stories of women in India’s vast informal sector have come to light, they...
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