Women

Meet the women who strongly believe that there is a spirit of ownership among villagers that can be tapped into by someone within their own community. And to honour this belief, they walk for miles each day to inform and educate people about sanitation and water issues. These are the wonderful Water and Sanitation Promoters of rural Tamil Nadu.

Meet the humble street cleaners who get to work in the wee hours of the morning to make the city clean before it wakes up. You're surely in for many surprises!

Can you imagine that one can realize their dreams of becoming a sports person at 47? Umadevi did, and this is her inspiring story of transformation from a shy and financially weak typist to a Billiards world champion.

Most Indian women still use scrap cloth from old saris and towels, the traditional method for managing menstruation for thousands of years. On World Menstrual Hygiene Day we present you with a list of 8 revolutionary brands that offer you cheap, affordable, hygienic and eco-friendly sanitary solutions.

From safety to keeping a track on your weight to cooking and education, this list of 20 smartphone apps for women covers all grounds!

A 9-year old girl who got married to an obsessed widower thrice her age and became India's first lady doctor. A husband who supported her education against her parent's will, the unsteady health and an untimely death - Anandi's story is all about going against the flow.

Read to know how women at the panchayat level politics are bringing about change in real terms! From improving sex ratios to setting up schools and vocational training centres to tackling alcoholism, these gutsy ladies are proving that perhaps all Indian politics needs is a dose of woman power!

Twenty years of hard work and devotion has made Kalaivani from Vellitiruppur, Tamil Nadu a celebrity of sorts in the organic farming circles in Erode district and beyond. In this video, learn how she has adopted organic practices on her farm and tripled her profits in addition to reaping many other benefits!

It is not without reason that Delhi is called the rape capital of the country. It reports the highest incidents of violence and sexual assaults against women. In addition to that, it hosts a large population of refugees and immigrants from neighbouring countries, who flee persecution in their own nations and hope to build a better life here. Unfortunately, many times they become even easier targets for abuse. In this context, we present to you the laudable efforts of the Crime Against Women Cell of the Delhi Police for imparting self-defence training to refugee women.

She grew up in America with a free spirit and was once an officer with US Military. While submitting her thesis on analysis of anti-trafficking NGOs, called “Victimhood Discourses and India’s Anti-Trafficking NGOs”, she ended up discovering the direction of her life. Meet Robin Chaurasiya - who has spearheaded Kranti, an NGO, to focus on helping trafficked girls escape the sex trade, heal, achieve a good education, and be self-supporting.