It has been 75 years since India adopted and accepted its Constitution, marking a historic milestone in its journey as an ...

Each of these founding mothers of the Constitution represents a unique facet of India's struggle for independence ...

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...

On April 3, 1950, law minister B R Ambedkar announced the formation of an unofficial advisory committee for drafting the Hindu Code Bill. On hearing this, Congr ...

Ammu Swaminathan was born in 1894 in Palakkad, Kerala. After marrying S. Swaminathan, she learned English and soon moved to Madras ...

They took on prominent roles in the newly independent democratic country. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit scaled heights in diplomacy. Amrit Kaur was the first woman to be a Union minister. As health ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Sucheta Kripalani, Purnima Banerji, Begum Aizaz Rasul and Kamla Chaudhry were from the United Provinces. Banerji was a steadfast communist and trade union leader.

FILE - U.S. President Harry Truman, from left, poses with Mary McLeod Bethune, retiring founder-president of the National Council of Negro Women, Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Ambassador of India ...

We also see her battling other personal battles. She’s shown to have a troubled relationship with her paternal aunt, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and later shown to be an overindulgent mother to her ...