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TOI 2022 March 8 International Womens Day

“You are a journalist and I am a prostitute!” This powerful line from the film Gangubai Kathiawadi encapsulates women empowerment. Of an individual, who is aware and doesn’t hesitate to proclaim a choice albeit unhappy, foisted on her by the world. This line screams the need for rights, recognition, respect and most importantly a need […]

08th Mar 2022

Publications, Women

Priyanka, Nirbhaya, Asifa, they, us, me

Priyanka, Nirbhaya, Asifa, they, us, me… Priyanka Reddy died a gruesome death post-rape, strangling, then burning.

24th Nov 2019

Issues - Ins and Outs, Social Change, Women

Gender Stereotyping – A Mother’s Angst

I typed in sports shoes on Google and bingo there were suggestions …

27th May 2019

Issues - Ins and Outs, Points of View, Women

Women Empowerment

Mohammed Yunus the Nobel prize winning Economist created ripples when he asserted that loans for business should be given primarily to women as there were better chances at recovery.

05th Mar 2019

- Events, Women

Women I admire – Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi was a politician, a prime minister in my growing up years. She announced the Emergency and everyone spoke in hushed tones of her wrong doings. In a world where television had just come into our homes and Doordarshan was an evening family get together for three hours around the idiot box. My earliest […]

Women

My first book

On myAudioBits World of AudioBook Library

In a Day’s Work – Book Launch at the Kolkata Book Fair 2022