The 43-page report, titled ‘Attitudes towards women’s sports, sportswomen and women in India’, was launched by BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla in New Delhi.
India is gradually moving toward a model where development is not simply delivered to women, but is rather designed and driven by them. Indian women are innovators and community leaders.
At an open-air gathering at the India International Centre, poets, writers and scholars reflected on womanhood, memory, ageing and agency across generations.
Ruhi Tewari's book 'What Women Want: Understanding the Female Voter in Modern India' is a portrait of Indian democracy that sees women as its most ambitious stakeholders and perhaps even its kingmakers.
Kapila Vatsyayan, who died on 16 September 2020, was the architect of cultural institutions from IGNCA to the Central University of Tibetan Studies. She advised Nehru, Indira, and Rajiv Gandhi.
In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family photographs and their visual omnipresence in our daily lives.
I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on to find voice, visibility and equality.
A typical woman-owned informal manufacturing unit is about half the size of one owned by a man. The GVA or gross value added per worker is about one-third, indicating productivity loss.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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