The 299-member Assembly included 15 women, including notable luminaries like Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. However, it also featured lesser-known women from various ...
Each of these founding mothers of the Constitution represents a unique facet of India's struggle for independence ...
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On April 3, 1950, law minister B R Ambedkar announced the formation of an unofficial advisory committee for drafting the ...
I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...
Ammu Swaminathan was born in 1894 in Palakkad, Kerala. After marrying S. Swaminathan, she learned English and soon moved to Madras ...
It’s been 105 years since women won the right to vote and 75 years since the Constitution guaranteed equality for all. What transpired in between to guarantee us this fundamental right?
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 ...
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 ...