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Women’s Day Exclusive: Kalpana Chawla’s Father Remembers His Iconic Daughter
On 1 February 2003, the world lost an icon in Kalpana Chawla, who along with six other crew members, died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. She was only 40 at the time of her death, but the...
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Meet Parimala Raman, Mathematician & Fellow of All 3 Indian Academies of...
India has always had a fascination for Mathematics. From Bhaskaracharya to Srinivasa Ramanujam, Indian mathematicians have made vital contributions to this field. In this long line of eminent math...
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One of Our Best Biochemists With 16 JACS Papers, She Was Never Awarded By India!
Off the top of your head, how many women in science can you name from across the globe? Go ahead, take your time. Now that you have done that, how many Indian women in science can you think of? Does...
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Meet Mumbai’s Sneha, The Commercial Pilot & India’s Fastest Woman Race Car...
Nothing gives Sneha Sharma, a professional Formula 4 race car driver and commercial pilot flying with IndiGo Airlines, a better adrenaline rush than speed. “I was 14 when I discovered my irresistible...
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This Entrepreneur Began With Just 5 Boxes of Bees, Now She Employs Over 350...
Back in the ‘90s, the idea of working women was an alien concept in Ayali Khurd, a tiny hamlet in Punjab’s West Ludhiana district. This was especially true in lesser privileged households. In 1995,...
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When Their Men Demurred, Here’s How 1000’s of Manipuri Women Battled the British
From the martyrdom of Haipou Jadonang, the Rongmei Naga leader who built an army of 500 to take on the British in the early 20th century to Rani Gaidinliu, who called upon ethnic Naga tribes to...
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Ghoongat, Untouchability, Dowry: This Forgotten ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’ Fought Them All
I was in school when I came across an immortal line of poetry which read, “Khoob Ladi Mardani, Woh toh Jhansi wali Rani Thi’‘ penned by legendary Hindi poet and freedom fighter Subhadra Kumari Chauhan....
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Bihar’s ‘Mushroom Mahila’ Empowers 10K Women, Now Earns Lakhs!
Years ago, when Bina Devi married into a family of Dhauri village, Munger district, Bihar, things were not any different from any other village of the country. Like the other women, she would spend her...
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Jowar Puffs To Smoothies: Made By Two Moms, These Healthy Snacks Are a Kid’s...
New mothers face several challenges post-pregnancy, and it was the same for Farah Menzies and Shreya Lamba. However, what they didn’t anticipate was that amid everything, they would discover an...
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What Happens To Women In Our Homes When Men Don’t #ShareTheLoad
This article has been sponsored by Ariel When was the last time you went to sleep without worrying about the next day’s meal or the unending list of chores you need to complete? This is a question I...
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How ‘Google of Gurgaon’ Gave Wings to 200+ Women Entrepreneurs
They say it takes a village to raise a child – Neela Kaushik, founder of GurgaonMoms, a robust online community with a membership of more than 30k decided in 2010 that she would just create that...
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Solar Innovation to Reimagining Waste: 2 Women Entrepreneurs’ Road to Success
Having worked with women entrepreneurs over the last couple of years, I have witnessed their stories of struggle. Start-ups, in general, come with their own set of obstacles and issues. As...
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In Just 5 Years, Kerala Woman Gets Entire Village to Grow Their Own Vegetables!
Twenty years ago, if someone would have told Seenat Kokkur that she would one day be an expert agriculturist and transform the lives of many women, she wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s precisely...
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Indrani Sinha Took on Bengal’s Prostitution Mafia to Rescue 2000+ Minors!
On 22 August 2015, Indrani Sinha, one of India’s foremost crusaders against human trafficking, passed away at the age of 65 following a heart attack. Tirelessly working for the most vulnerable through...
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Going from Driver to Entrepreneur, How This Assamese woman Empowered 10,000 More
Assam, in the late 1970s and 80s, was rife with social unrest and conflict over the issue of illegal immigrants. Mandira Baruah was all of 16 when none other than her school principal brought a...
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Meet the Manipuri Legend Going Where No Indian Woman Footballer Has Gone
Growing up during the late 1990s, in Irengbam, a small village situated in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, Ngangom Bala Devi was a regular presence on the local football field. Encouraged by her father,...
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Journey of a TikTok Star: Meet The Cook Who Danced Her Way to a Million+ Fans
On 1 September 2019, when Mamta Verma was watching the show Dance Plus, she was inspired by Amardeep Singh Natt’s robotic dance moves. The next day she tried this style on a famous Punjabi number,...
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Bois Locker Room: How Cops & Netizens Joined Hands To Crack The Circle
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. On Sunday, 3 May, in...
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Kolkata Single Mom Took on a Regressive System to Get Her Child An Education
Anindita Sarbadhicari, a Kolkata based filmmaker in her 40s, remembers the exact moment when she conceived her child. “The date was 3 May 2013. I was inside the operating theatre, and Hariprasad...
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How One Woman Used The Art of Turning Rags to Quilts to Empower 600 Others
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. Nanoor, in the...
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