Her father, Dr. Srikant Jichkar, was one of the most educated persons in the country, she was an engineering drop-out. While she eventually went on to complete her graduation and post-graduation, she was cut-out for something more purposeful. When most teenagers are concentrating on studies and trying to figure out what career options they want to choose, Maitreyi Read More…
Born to a poor farmer in West Bengal, she was married off to a laborer at the age of 12 and had four children by the time she was 20. Unable to afford good medical treatment for her husband’s illness, she was widowed when she was just 23. Devastated by her husband’s death, Subhasini Read More…
“I was told there are only two processions in a woman’s life; once when she gets married and the other when she dies. Imagine my state of mind when they took me in a procession to my husband’s home in Navargaon forest in Wardha,” Sindhutai Sapkal. It was ninth month of her pregnancy when Read More…
Saalumarada Thimmakka lives an ordinary life, but she is an extraordinary woman. She had no formal education, but she is a self-taught environmentalist. She along with her late husband has planted over 8000 trees in the last 65 years including over 400 banyan trees on a 4KM stretch from Kudur to Hulikal village. Thimmakka was Read More…
Safeena Husain is the Founder of Educate Girls – a non-profit organization that she set up in 2007, for a cause that she believes in passionately
“I AM NOT A VICTIM. I AM A SURVIVOR. THE MAN WHO ATTACKED ME WILL COVER HIS FACE, I WON’T.” Like every other girl, she had dreams. She aspired to become a singer and make her parents proud. She was attacked with concentrated acid in Delhi’s Khan Market in 2005 by her acquaintances, Guddu Read More…