By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai, Jan 29, 2020: A schoolgirl, who won a bravery award after she helped a child escape a trafficker, is to become the inspiration for a new anti-slavery campaign in India, officials have said. Carolyn Malsawmtluangi, from the northeastern state of Mizoram, was honored by the federalContinue Reading
By Amrita Paul New Delhi, Jan 25, 2020: Virginia Woolf had once said, “For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” But when it came to the Indian Independence Movement, women walked shoulder-to-shoulder with men to help India receive its Independence. Here are six women who played a pivotal roleContinue Reading
Kollam, Jan 23, 2020: This bookworm bride demanded books as mehr instead of gold or money. Breaking stereotypes, Ajna Nazim, who married Ijas Hakkim, had asked for 100 books as dowry. The list included Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Bible and the Constitution of India. Mehr is usually a large sum ofContinue Reading
By Haritha K P Chengannur, Jan 23, 2020: After completing her household chores Umadevi Antharjanam gets into her routine walk. The 73-year-old grandmother is the ‘field librarian’ at Kalaposhini Library in Budhannoor village near Chengannur in Kerala. With books stuffed in her shoulder bag and an umbrella in one hand,Continue Reading
The Don Bosco Development Society is providing education in 10 villages in the state of Rajasthan, for 300 extremely poor and disadvantaged children, including children of farmers and workers in quarries. The educational project is supported by the van Ameringen Foundation, which provides funds for innovative and practical programs forContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan. 20, 2020: Free Voice India spoke with the Award Committee Chairperson Anthony Arun Biswas who admitted that while the Missionaries of Charity objected in promoting Kolkata’s very own Mother Teresa, he and his organisation used the name of the Saint to get name and fame. Mother Teresa InternationalContinue Reading
By Basant Kumar Mohanty New Delhi, Jan 20, 2020: The Narendra Modi government plans a chain of exclusive residential schools for Dalit children, but some activists have drawn a parallel with America’s former racial segregation policy. The proposal before the social justice and empowerment ministry is to start 150 AmbedkarContinue Reading
By Piyush Srivastava Lucknow, Jan 20, 2020: Police snatched their biscuits, water bottles and spare blankets on January 18 night. ● Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s social media team sneaked into the protest through following morning and afternoon, scouring for anything that could be used against the women andContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan 17, 2020: As the clock strikes noon, this small empty courtyard in Entally fills up with eager eyes and empty tummies. The promise of food has been bringing the hungry mouths from the neighboring slums to this courtyard every afternoon since the beginning of the new year. It’sContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: Housewives are second largest group among suicide victims in India, according to the “Suicide in India 2018” data released by the National Crime Record Bureau. Housewives accounted for 17.1 percent of suicides in that year. Daily wage earners topped the list (22.4 percent), followed byContinue Reading
