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Married at 16, Abandoned at 18: This Single Mother’s Journey Defines True Grit!
At the age of 16, I was devising ways to go and watch Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, the highest grosser of the year 2000. Though my teenage heart belonged to Shahrukh Khan, my school friends and I particularly...
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Crafting a Green World: Manipur Artist Uses Waste Husk to Make Gorgeous Dolls!
The smoke rises from the chimney, cutting through the thick blanket of fog hung over Songsong, a sleepy little village in Manipur. The quiet slowly breaks into spirited chatter amidst the rustling...
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Goons To Threats: Nothing Can Break This 56-YO’s Will To Save Mumbai’s Mangroves
It’s true that Mumbai is a city of contrasts. Generations have grown up seeing the towering opulence of skyscrapers juxtaposed with the asymmetrical line of clogged tin-roofed slums. It’s either the...
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68 Years Young! This Woman Owns 6 Indian Passports, Has Had Adventures in 65...
Sudha Mahalingam remembers something that her mother told her, many years ago, when she was a young girl growing up in Chennai. “Sudha, if you want to bathe in the sea, you can’t wait for the waves to...
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Smashing Stereotypes: At 14, She Was India’s Youngest Female Dhol Player!
The 12-year-old girl standing in the middle of the green field was oblivious to the beauty around her. Her stance upright, her face focussed on the task at hand, her shoulders too slender to bear the...
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Rejected From 28 Job Interviews, Mumbai Woman Defied Society to Chase Her Dreams
You should not, and you cannot, are the two things she grew up hearing. From going out to play with other kids, finding a friend, to even pursuing higher studies, everything was a battle against the...
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They Never Left Each Other’s Side: Mumbai Duo’s Moving Story is...
Bharti Gelani and Honey Lulla first met during the first year of junior college. Remembering her first memory of Bharti, Honey says, “I remember her as a skinny tomboy with really short hair, who was...
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She Fought Patriarchy to Educate Girls, Has Helped 80K Women Live Life On Own...
This article has been sponsored by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation In 1946, Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai was a young college graduate. Even as the entire country was in the midst of the freedom...
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Kerala Woman’s Garden Makes Her a YouTube Star, Helps Her Earn Rs 1 Lakh/Month!
It was the fear of losing the pictures and videos of her precious garden that made Annie Yujin start a Youtube channel. Her need for cataloguing the growth of the 1-acre home garden in Kerala and...
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Recipe For Success: How a Delhi Homemaker Built a Culinary Empire That’s...
From ticking the empty box in my school admission form to the common question of, “what does your mother do?” I always wondered why my reply was often met with a cold response. “She is a housewife,” I...
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Once a Child Labourer, Ranchi Man Has Rescued 4000 Women & Kids From...
The stage was set. And the prey was within reach. A call from an informer confirmed that he had arrived with promises of a better life. Baidnath Kumar smiled in anticipation as he closed the net that...
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650 Towns, 2.7 Lakh Sex Workers: Inside Avahan, India’s Largest Public Health...
He silently stood in front of an open field in Vishakhapatnam, spread across five square yards, while a storm brewed inside of him. He was bewildered. Shocked. This was not what he had expected. “I was...
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Low-Cost Prosthetics Made By These Women Have Helped Over 40K Differently-Abled!
For Noor Jaan, the idea of self-reliance was a foreign concept. Growing up, at every single step, a relative or a neighbour would remind her that independence was not in her fate. “I had a polio attack...
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Safe Late-Night Rides for Women, Free Rides for the Poor: Meet Chennai’s...
The clock was about to strike 12 when PV Raji Ashok’s phone buzzed. She has had a long day of work, but she knows that this call cannot go unanswered. The call was from a woman wanting a ride to her...
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TN Woman Helps Schools, Anganwadis Build Edible Gardens For Students!
What does a typical day within a school campus look like? Children running around or painting and perhaps even sitting in silence, immersed in reading? Want to begin gardening in your own backyard?...
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Exclusive: From Physicists to Geologists, Meet 6 Amazing Antarctic Women of...
Bracing herself against the chilly katabatic winds, Dr Mayuri Pandey pulled out her polar gloves to jot down notes about the rock samples she had just collected. The cold bit into her fingers, sending...
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This Woman Quit Her Job to Help Sonam Wangchuk Transform Education in Ladakh!
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Ladakh’s first ever university. However, experts believe that there is still a very long way to go before these institutions...
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Businesswoman Makes India’s Wonders Accessible For Those With Reduced Mobility
“Can you imagine not being able to step out of your house for almost 10 years?” asks Sminu Jindal, one of the most prominent names in the steel, oil and gas industry of India. What might seem like a...
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#FreePeriod: Join Hundreds of School Girls in Replacing Toxic Menstrual Products
Pads? Tampons? Menstrual Cups? Cloth? Many women have heard of these options when it comes to menstrual products. Many more, perhaps, are also aware of the advantages of sustainable options and the...
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Star Trek to Success: Persis Khambatta, the First Indian Woman to Stamp a...
Long before modern-day actresses took to the international stage, it was a Mumbai born and bred, former Miss India who blazed the trail for Indian actors to venture into Hollywood. She made hearts...
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