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TopicSavitribai Phule

Topic: Savitribai Phule

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

Actor Rajshri Deshpande is losing movie roles because of her social work

Running the Nabhangan Foundation since 2018, the actor’s focus is to create actual change on the ground, rather than simply portraying ‘strong’ female characters on screen.

Finding Fatima Sheikh: Scholars point to Phule’s letter, photo negative & British-era document

Three years after Google carried a doodle to honour her contributions, a feverish debate over her existence propelled Fatima Sheikh and the question of her legacy into the spotlight.

Savitribai Phule carried an extra saree to school. Brahmins regularly threw ‘filth’ at her

In ‘Savitribai Phule’, Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta traces the life of the revolutionary and places her in historical context.

SubscriberWrites: TISS Mumbai examines the importance of Savitribai Phule’s role in contemporary times

The Ambedkarite Student’s Association at TISS Mumbai celebrated 192nd Savitribai Phule's birth anniversary on 4 January 2023, writes Vinay Damodar.

Bollywood ignored Jyotirao, Savitribai Phule for long. Shooting for a new biopic set to start

The feature film to be directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan will focus on the ‘main era of action’ of the husband-wife. Shoot starts in April.

BJP rebel Savitribai Phule says party leaders are ‘hurt’ but too afraid of Modi-Shah

Days after joining the Congress, Dalit leader Savitribai Phule called PM Narendra Modi a ‘liar’, and also demanded proof of casualties in the Balakot strike.

Why Indian history has forgotten Fatima Sheikh but remembers Savitribai Phule

So little is known about educator and social reformer Fatima Sheikh that even her date of birth is debated.  

Savitribai Phule’s birth anniversary was once mooted to be India’s second Teacher’s Day

A proposal to mark social reformer Savitribai Phule’s birth anniversary as second Teacher’s Day is in limbo.  

How Dalit leader Savitri Bai Phule became a rebel with a cause within the BJP

The 37-year-old BJP MP from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has recently made headlines with her scathing attack on the party’s stand on Dalit issues.

On Camera

New Delhi prefers to look at Manipur as a horizontal problem, not vertical

‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.