Tag: Women
Haryana’s Shanan Dhaka Tops First Women Batch of NDA Exam
Growing up in an Army family and in cantonment areas, it was an easy decision for 19-year-old Shanan Dhaka to choose a career in uniform….
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…
New Scheme Makes Clothes More Fashionable Than Guns in Dantewada, Helps 749 Women
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…
This Instagram Page Is Retelling Stories of Partition Through The Voices of Women
“I want to tell people that women in colonial Punjab were not the bejewelled ladies inside a mysterious purdah, nor were they the “naive” sheep…
Basti Women Bring 700-Year-Old Mughlai Recipes to 5-Star Hotels
Noorjahan was 23 when she joined Zaika-e-Nizamuddin (ZeN), a women’s collective preserving and popularising old Delhi’s salivary cuisine started in 2015. Then a mother of…
Cambodian Women Turn Invasive Weed Into Beautiful Bags & More
Water hyacinths, a type of invasive weed, grow abundantly in tropics and subtropics. With long stems and beautiful flowers, these are one of the fastest-growing…
TBI Co-Founder Anuradha Parekh Wins Women Transforming India Award for Inspiring Work
On the fifth edition of the Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards organised by NITI Aayog, 75 women achievers were felicitated in a ceremony held in…
Beaten & Thrown Out For Having Daughters, I Now Earn Rs 1 Lakh/Month & Help Women
Trigger warning: self-harm, domestic violence Leaving behind two daughters, one of whom was a newborn, was probably the most difficult decision Runjun Begum from Rangia,…
5 Unsung Indian Women Who Blazed New Trails in Science
When it comes to women in science, the pages of History often ignores the contribution of a prominent few whose exemplary contributions led to revolutionary…
Entrepreneur Popularises Bastar’s Mahua as Healthy Snacks, Employs 350 Rural Women
For long, the image of mahua (Madhuca longifolia), or the Indian Butter tree, has been synonymous with liquor, predominantly consumed by Adivasis. In recent years,…