women empowerment

Several Indian-origin women CEO are blazing a trail with their vision and leadership of major global companies. From Leena Nair to Jayshree Ullal, they have all broken the glass ceiling.

Mushroom farming expert Pushpa Jha from Darbhanga, Bihar invested only Rs 500 and started growing mushrooms in her own house using unique methods

Breaking the glass ceiling and several barriers on the bay, 25-year-old Haritha KK from Alappuzha in Kerala has become the first woman captain of fishing vessels in India.

Built entirely out of Jaisalmer sandstone by community craftspeople, the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School is a stunning example of sustainable architecture and empowerment -- it educates 400 girls from underprivileged families.

Amazon India in partnership with over 150 non-profit organisations, will contribute 20,000 digital devices, impacting as many as 1,00,000 students from across the country.

Punam Rai from Varanasi is the true face of courage. Despite being left paralysed for 15 years, she is empowering thousands of girls today with her organisation Bindeshwar Rai Foundation, wherein she teaches girls taekwondo and painting.

Lucknow-based Greenwear Fashion, founded by Abhishek Pathak, produces a variety of fabrics, including Khadi, woven on solar looms and handlooms, and also creates different types of garments using these fabrics.

Mohanlal and Bhagwanti Vermohal founded MV Spices in Jodhpur in the 70s. What started as a handful of handmade spices being sold on a bed sheet outside Mehrangarh Fort is today a world-famous spice business with four stores that offer over 120 products, being helmed by eight gritty women

Ravi Prasad from Hariharpur in Uttar Pradesh, started Malawa Kela Resa Utpadan Laghu Udyog Kendra that sells footwear, hats, carpets and other items made from banana waste

Author Snigdha Parupudi's new book, A Silent Revolution - The Journey of the Srinivasan Services Trust, chronicles the two-decade-long journey of rural development initiated by Srinivasan Services Trust (SST).