Bhuri Bai, The Daily Wager Who Won a Padma Shri & Sold Pithora Art in Sotheby’s
Belonging to the Bhil tribal community in Madhya Pradesh, Padma Shri recipient and artist Bhuri Bai was not even allowed to think about painting. Today, she is not only the first female artist from the...
View ArticleWoman Quits IT Job To Sell Authentic Marathi Home Food, Now Owns 11 Restaurants
When Maharashtra native Jayanti Kathale travelled to Australia for work, she found that what she missed most was food from back home. She set out to search for an authentic desi restaurant to satisfy...
View ArticleWatch: ‘I Am 3ft 11in Tall, But Now I Find Respect in Once-Scornful Eyes’
Harvinder Kaur Janagal was 10 years old when she realised that she won’t be an ‘average’ person. It took her years to outgrow society’s concept of ‘normalcy’ and embrace who she is. Harvinder is a 3...
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She Quit Wall Street To Create 15 ‘Desi’, Crunchy Vegan Ice Cream Flavours
Swirls of sugary, sweet cotton candy ice cream invoke childhood memories of shopping sprees with the family, ending with a treat of bright pink and wispy thin budhiya ke baal (cotton candy). A fudgy,...
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She Quit Her Thriving Career In Aviation To Help Hundreds Of Rape Victims Get...
In the 14 years since she has taken up social work and activism, Yogita Bhayana, a well-known name in the field of women rights, has seen many incidents that have left her appalled at the state of...
View ArticleSpeeding Through Barriers: Meet Kalyani Potekar, India’s Fastest Woman...
At a time when children around her were learning how to paddle bicycles, nine-year-old Kalyani Potekar was discovering her passion for motorcycle racing. Earlier this year, Kalyani, now 27, became...
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IAS Officer’s Brilliant Ideas Took India From World’s Highest Cases To...
In 2014, one-and-a-half year old Rukhsar Khatoon unwittingly became a symbol of India’s arduous fight against—and eventual victory over—polio. The little girl, a resident of Howrah district in West...
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Rajkot’s Favourite Chaiwali Quit Her Job to Start a ‘Secret Thela’; Earns Rs...
For Rajkot-based Nisha Hussain (28), the mantra of success is simple. “The work you enjoy doing should be done with pride, not shame. You can make good money even from small jobs. No work is small,”...
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Mom-Daughter Keep Dad’s Memory Alive With Baking Biz, Plan To Fund Surgeries...
Swati Arun (23) recalls a childhood full of happy memories, spent with her parents and sister in Delhi. Long weekends and holidays were always special, when the family would get together baking marble...
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Once Women’s Corpses Were Disrobed in Goa; This Teacher Changed This & So...
Come February, and India’s perennial holiday destination, Goa, turns into one big festival, for it is ‘carnival time’. Giant, colourful floats take over the streets, with masqueraded parades and folk...
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How Women Turned A Tiny Village Struggling With Darkness Into A Solar Gram
Every 10 days, a male and a female representative from each home at Manyachiwadi village, located in Satara district of Maharashtra, assemble at 9 pm for their gram sabha meeting. They are judicious...
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‘Not An Internal Matter’: How An 18-YO Helped Women Escape Domestic Violence
This article has been published in partnership with Breakthrough India. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is an annual international campaign held from 25 November till 10 December,...
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When A Portuguese Woman Intrigued With An Emperor In The Mughal Empire
In the suburban village of Okhla, one of the oldest in Delhi, stands a tall board that reads ‘Sarai Julena Gaon’. This signboard is the last remaining proof of a sarai, or rest house, built for weary...
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1st Girl To Go To College From Village, 25-YO Beats Odds To Help Every Girl...
This article has been published in partnership with Breakthrough India. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is an annual international campaign held from 25 November till 10...
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How I Battled Depression & Ridicule to be Kashmir’s 1st Certified Female...
In the Kashmir valley, which over the years has suffered much strife, one major problem has largely gone unaddressed — the health of the women here. Data from the government’s National Family Health...
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87-YO Seamstress Builds Multi-Crore Garment Biz, Empowers 70000 Women
Originally from Pakistan’s Sindh, Sarla Ahuja moved to India’s Rajasthan during the Partition. Married at the age of 16, Sarla did not like spending her days managing household chores from cooking to...
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‘I Knew Nothing but Cricket’: How a 21-YO Batted Her Way From Dharavi to WPL...
Growing up in Mumbai’s Dharavi, considered one of the world’s largest slums, Simran Shaikh spent all her childhood playing cricket in its lanes with boys older than her age. From breaking window panes...
View ArticleThis Single Mother Swept Streets By Day, Studied By Night To Become Deputy...
Defying all odds to earn her place, Asha Kandara, a sanitary worker in Jodhpur Municipal Corporation (North), became a deputy collector at Jodhpur Nagar Nigam. A single mother to two children, she was...
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‘Lessons I Learnt From My Son With Asperger’s Syndrome’: Mom Trains 1000s of...
As a young PhD fellow, Neena Rao from Hyderabad had always envisioned her professional life to be in the impact sector. At the time, however, she never fathomed the difference she would go on to make...
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NRI Mom-Daughter Duo From Hyderabad Takes Authentic South Indian Podi...
‘Comfort drizzled onto a dish’ is how most people would describe their beloved podis. The semi-coarse dry powders have graced many a table, particularly in South India, where it is something of a hero...
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