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Kashmir Is On The Finger Tips, Thanks To Mehvish's Android App

Meet 23-year-old Mehvish, the first Kashmiri woman to develop an android application. ...read more

Women Ensure Water, Water Everywhere - Even in the Thar Desert

Across hundreds of villages that dot Jalore, Barmer and Jaisalmer districts in Rajasthan's Marwar region, generations of women have been burdened with the daily ordeal of water collection. ...read more


Change Is What? Meet The Any Time Money College Kids

Remember those good old college days? The fire breathing hostel matron, who had you scurrying into your room well within the 7 pm curfew; the note from the local guardian that you simply had to produce if you ever wanted to stay out late; or the long wait for some inedible mess food, which you wolfed down because you were too hungry to care. ...read more


New Orleans To Bengal, Novelist Fatima Shaik Tells Her Story

Her grandfather sailed from the banks of the River Hooghly in West Bengal to explore greener pastures and landed up in America's southern city of New Orleans. ...read more

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The success story of women's political representation could well be scripted in India's rural hinterland. In April 1993, the Government of India passed the, the Constitutional (73rd Amendment) Act mandating that there should be at 33 per cent reservation for women in panchayati raj institutions (PRIs).

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