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Dreamt at 6, Started at 19, Chef Takes the Magic of Traditional Indian Food...
If you happen to walk into The Secret Kitchen in Ahmedabad — a restaurant run by Aanal Kotak — you may find yourself awestruck at the kind of dishes that are made here. Not only are these the result...
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A Painting or a Quilt? Architect Weaves Art at World Stage With Traditional...
In 2009, after having her baby boy, Shruti Dandekar (44) had a decision to make. Though the answer to the choice between her job and family seemed easy, the making of the decision was not, she says....
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With Neurology-on-Wheels, Doctor Takes Free Epilepsy & Stroke Treatment to...
Sometime in early 2008, Dr Bindu Menon was dropping her daughter to school when other parents and teaching faculty began crowding around her in the corridor, seeking advice on different neurological...
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Married at 20, 44-YO Jammu Homemaker Found Passion in Professional Gaming,...
A thin yet no less than prominent part of the metaphorical glass ceiling prevails. While women pioneer across fields and industries — from filmmaking and space sciences to entrepreneurship — there is...
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All It Took To Become an Animation Filmmaker & Make My Mark in a...
In the early 2000s, recalls Charuvi Agrawal, a woman in a film studio was a rare sight. A woman in an animation studio was even rarer. Whenever the animator would meet clients, she would receive odd...
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A Trip to Kutch Inspired an Engineer to Take Nomadic Tribe’s Ancient Craft to...
At the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch lies Dasada village, where a riot of colours is brewing. Several members of the Mir community sit with a spread of beadwork before them. They will turn these...
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How India’s No. 1 Woman Goalkeeper Is Paving the Way for Underprivileged...
When talking to Aditi Chauhan, a mainstay of the Indian women’s football team for more than a decade, it’s hard not to feel her calm but fierce competitive drive. It’s that unrelenting drive that took...
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Who Was Tarla Dalal? The Home Chef Who Transformed India with 17,000 Veg Recipes
One of India’s most celebrated chefs and cookbook authors, Tarla Dalal was known for balancing the art of cooking with entrepreneurship. Often revered as the Julia Child of Indian vegetarian cooking,...
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New Scheme Makes Clothes More Fashionable Than Guns in Dantewada, Helps 749...
Pramila Netam’s voice shook as she recalled how her father fell to bullets during the dreaded Salwa Judum which continued from 2005 to 2011 in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. An anti-insurgency movement, it...
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The Sole Woman RJ of an MP Town Uses Radio To Show Lakhs How To Save the...
In the small town of Orchha, located in Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, Varsha Raikwar’s voice rings with clarity. For the last five years, the 25-year-old has been educating hundreds of villages...
View ArticleSingle Mom Turns Old Truck into Food Corner Serving Karnataka Cuisine; Earns...
Shilpa was living a comfortable life with her husband Rajshekhar, a businessman, and her young son. However, one day her husband left for a business trip and that was the last they saw of him. The...
View Article“Want to Walk for Gucci”: Zainika Jagasia, a 19-YO Model With Down Syndrome
Right from her childhood, Zainika Jagasia, a 19-year-old girl with down syndrome, wanted to be a model. Born to supportive parents in Mumbai, she had her dream come true when her parents arranged a...
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60-YO Helps 1000 Kashmiri Women Earn From Embroidery During Pandemic
The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has recorded the second-highest unemployment rate in the country at 46 per cent. The successive lockdowns and clampdowns in the last three years have given a...
View Article10 Things About Droupadi Murmu, India’s 1st President From a Tribal Community
This article was updated on 22 July 2022. Droupadi Murmu scripted history on Thursday as she was declared the 15th President of India. She bagged votes from 2,824 electors, which included 540 MPs,...
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Entrepreneur at 88, Woman Whips up Hair Oil With 150-YO Recipe That Stops...
When Karnataka-native Nagamani was 24 years old, she experienced extreme hair fall. Her 60-year-old friend from Mysore shared a hair oil formula and assured her that it will do wonders for her hair....
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5 Landmark Abortion Judgements Where Indian Courts Kept Women’s Rights Above All
On Friday, June 24, the United States Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade judgement, which had protected the rights of women across the country to access safe abortions for the last 50...
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Alia Bhatt, Dia Mirza & More: Why are Pregnant Women Asked Insensitive...
Quintessential questions for newlyweds in India include, ‘Is there any good news?’ As a married woman, I have also not been spared. When I moved cities a few years ago, the first question I was asked...
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At 45, I Went on A Record-Breaking 55-Hour Cycling Ride from Leh to Manali
Preeti Maske, a resident of Pune, took up cycling at the age of 40, after she developed a series of health problems — anaemia, hormonal imbalance, and PCOS. Thanks to these, she always felt like she...
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‘I Judged Sexually Active Unmarried Women Till a Patient Changed Me’:...
Today, on Doctor’s Day I find myself drawn to a pertinent issue that I have come across during my years of practice and even more as I worked as a social worker to better the lives of women. I have...
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‘Hustle Is What Drives Me’: Miss India World 2022 Sini Shetty On What...
Sini Shetty, a product executive, dancer, actor, model and content creator, has won the Miss India World 2022 title in the event that took place at the Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai. Hailing from the...
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