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She could have been an IAS officer; she even wrote the exam. But an interview with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) happened. She got through and was asked to join immediately. Today, she is hailed as the ‘Missile Woman of India’ and ‘Agniputri ‘(one born of fire) afterContinue Reading

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When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India’s languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a “dense forest of voices”, a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world’sContinue Reading

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Soda Village: As the sun begins to set on the village of Soda in western India, Chhavi Rajawat walks through the dusty streets, stopping to chat with residents who emerge from the wooden doorways of their homes to greet her. Folding their hands together and bending to touch 39-year-old Rajawat’sContinue Reading

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by Philip Mathew Kottayam: Sr. Thresiamma Mathew is a women’s rights activist and an advocate of gender equality. She has helped some 2,500 women from economically poor families to become professional masons when it was unthinkable to employ female masons in her home state of Kerala, southern India. Mathew joinedContinue Reading