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Sister Alphonsamma
Sister Alphonsamma-India's first female saint: Born in a hilly hamlet in Kerala, Sr. Alphonsa found a notable position in the spiritual map of India, as well as of the world, when the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict the XVI canonized her on Sunday, 12th October 2008 at Vatican. She thus becomes the first woman saint... [+] More |
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Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal is conquering heights day by day. She has reached the third spot in the ranking of world Badminton Federation. She has been elevated to the third spot from sixth based on her performance in Indian Open, Singapore super series and Indonesian Open. She won all these events comprehensively. It is the highest rank ever reached by... [+] More |
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Indra K Nooyi
Indra K. Nooyi is the president and chief financial officer of PepsiCo. She was awarded the coveted title ‘CEO of the year 2009’ on Monday, Jul 13 by the Global Supply Chain Leaders Group (GSCLG).Best known for its Pepsi soft drinks, the international powerhouse that Nooyi oversees is actually one of the world's largest snack-food... [+] More |
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Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has entered the elite ranks of the Indian business world as India's richest woman. Born on 23 March, 1953, she is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. She did her schooling from Bangalore and graduated in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, after which she moved on to Ballarat University in... [+] More |
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Alarmel Valli
Alarmel Valli is a foremost exponent of the Pandanallur tradition in BharataNatyam. She is hailed as a creative artist who brings depth, intensity and naturalness to her work. She has won laurels several times in the major festivals in India and in... [+] More |
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Chitra Visweswaran
Chitra Visweswaran is famed as one of the leading Bharatnatyam dancer of India. A competent performer, teacher and choreographer, she heads her own dance institution, 'Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA)', at Chennai.Chitra's association with dance began early at the tender age of three from her own mother, Smt. Rukmini... [+] More |
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P.T.Usha
P.T. Usha is one of India's best-known athletes, the queen of Indian track and field for two decades, and the woman who was nicknamed 'Payyoli Express' because of her speed on the race-track.
Payyoli Tevaraparampil Usha was born in a poor family in the village Meladi-Payyoli near Calicut, Kerala. As a young girl Usha had to face ill... [+] More |
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Naina Lal Kidwai
A prominent personality of the corporate world, she is the first woman to guide the functioning of a foreign bank in India. At present, she is working as the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India. Well, we are talking about the corporate diva Naina Lal Kidwai.
She was born in the year 1957. Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, she... [+] More |
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Vijayalakshmi Pandit
She was born on August 18, 1900 as Swarup Kumari Nehru at Allahabad. She was the elder daughter of Shri Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani.
At the time when Vijayalakshmi came into this world Jawaharlal, her elder brother, was about 11 years old. He had long nourished a secret grievance at not having any brothers or sisters when everybody... [+] More |
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Aruna Asaf Ali
Aruna Asaf Ali played a leading role during Quit India Movement; elected as Delhi’s first Mayor; awarded the Lenin Prize for peace in 1975 and the Jawahar Lal Nehru award for International understanding for 1991; honored with Bharat Ratna in 1998.
Aruna Asaf Ali was a legendary heroine of India's freedom struggle. Her moment of reckoning... [+] More |
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Anita Ratnam
Anita Ratnam is one of the most talented dancers of the Indian subcontinent. She has been trained as a Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam as well as a Kathakali dancer and is counted amongst the best choreographers of the South. Anita is also handling the responsibility of being a cultural commentator, writer and speaker on the performing arts.... [+] More |
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Yamini Krishnamurthy
Yamini Krishnamurthy is an eminent classical dancer of India. She has attained her mastery over the dances of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi. Yamini was born in 1940 at Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. She took birth in a Telugu family, on a full moon night. On seeing the child, her grandfather instantly named her Yamini Poornatilaka which suggests... [+] More |
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Sonal Mansingh
An eminent Indian classical dancer, she is the maestro of Odissi dance form. She is also proficient in performing other dance forms such as Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam and Chhau. Well, we are talking about the great Indian dancer Sonal Mansingh, who has made Indians proud. In this article, we will present you with the biography of Odissi dancer... [+] More |
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Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam
Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, the legendary Bharatnatyam dancer is a rare combination of a dancer, research scholar, choreographer, music composer & musician, teacher, author and indologist. She is now the director of 'Nrithyodaya'- the dance school founded in 1942 by her father, in Chennai.
Padma grew up in an environment where both her parents... [+] More |
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Dr. M.S.Subbalakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu (M.S) Subbalakshmi, the nightingale of Carnatic music was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu on September 16, 1916 to noted Veena player Shanmukhavadivu and lawyer Subramania Iyer.
Young Kunchamma as she was called and her siblings were brought up in a musical environment in her home close to the Madurai Meenakshi Temple.... [+] More |
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Mira Nair
Mira Nair is a renowned Indian director who has established herself internationally. She was born on 15th October 1957 in Bhubaneshwar, India. Her father Nayyar was from Amritsar, Punjab and was a civil servant while her mother was a social worker.
She studied in a boarding school in Shimla. She joined Miranda House in New Delhi where... [+] More |
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Magical Voice: Mathangi Sathyamoorthy
The vetran musician, a strict follower of Carnatic Music, she inherited her flair of music from her mother Santha Subramoniam. Her training in Carnatic music under Sri K S Subramoniam, of the chembai foldhad refurbished her musical talent to a great extend.
Mathangi Sathyamoorthy has to her credit a number of carnatic music concerts at... [+] More |
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GEETHA RAMANUJAM
Geeta Ramanujam is a storyteller, academician and journalist with a difference.She is the founder of Kathalaya and the Academy of storytelling in India. She has been an inspiration to many. She is an Ashoka Fellow and has been a teacher and librarian at schools in Bangalore for the past 28 years. In 1998, she founded Kathalaya: The House of... [+] More |
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Anita Nair
Anita Nair is a popular Indian-English writer. She was born at Mundakottakurissi, near Shornur in More |
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Beena Kannan
Beena Kannan is the Managing Director and Lead Designer of Seematti textiles, the most preferred shopping destinations for Keralites. She discovered her passion for saree design on completion of graduation. Beena designs bridal brocades with pearl-beaded gold and silver strands to embellish sarees. She travels throughout India and visits... [+] More |
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Deepa Malik
Can anyone think about a person who is paralyzed hip down to be an international athlete, swimmer, motorsports enthusiast, counsellor and entrepreneur? Meet Deepa Malik who has led a life full of action though she is confined to wheel chairs. From the Federation of Motorsports Clubs of India she even received a co-driver competitor... [+] More |
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Suseela Mathew
In our society, women are still a marginalized group; domestic violence is very common, and it reflects the psychosocial ill health of the society; empowerment of women is very important to abolish it and legal measures, political will, education of women, change of attitudes of the community and contributions of people could facilitate... [+] More |
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Pooja Dhanda
Pooja Dhanda, a plus 2 student from Haryana is to be lauded for her achievement. She made the country proud by winning the silver medal in the 60 Kg freestyle wrestling in Singapore. She entered the finals defeating her opponents comprehensively in the 3 rounds but could not maintain her form in the finals. She lost to her opponent 3-1.... [+] More |
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Homai Vyarawalla
As a great pioneer in the world of Indian photo-journalism, Homai Vyarawalla came out with great photographs starting from 1938 for over a period of 35 years till 1973. The lasting beauty of her photographs - 'whether utilitarian or inspirational' - can be summed up in one brilliant phrase of the great American poet Robert Frost: 'Art... [+] More |
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Jyothi
Photography is a field usually associated with masculinity. It was just unthinkable a few years ago, a women carrying a camera and travelling extensively to capture mind boggling frames. But the 24 year old Jyothi has succeeded in choosing her career in photography. While doing her degree itself she decided to take up photography as her... [+] More |
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Mridula Koshy
Koshy, who was born and raised in Delhi till the age of 15, migrated to the US in the 1980s. After graduating from Occidental College on the outskirts Los Angeles, where US President Barack Obama studied, Koshy became a full-time trade union activist and a community organiser, while holding several small-time jobs like waitress, backstage... [+] More |
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Shaheen Mistry
Shaheen Mistry is the CEO of Teach for India and the Founder of Akanksha Foundation a non profit organization. She founded organization in 1989 with the vision to provide children from all strata of society with the education, the skills, and most importantly, the character that they would need to lead empowered lives.
She is providing... [+] More |
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Dr. Kalamandalam Radhika
Dance transcends all polarizing barriers. Known as the Ambassador of Mohiniyattom Dr. Radhika performs in different languages keeping in mind the taste and knowledge of the audience. She has popularised Mohiniyattom all over the world. She is the first non-resident Keralite who has won the prestigious award for Mohiniyattom instituted by... [+] More |
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SUBHADRA SEN GUPTA
Subhadra the well known writer writes both fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, mainly on the subject of history, travel and on Indian culture and mythology. She also works as a freelance editor.
Subhadra specialises in historical fiction and to the dismay of her young readers has also written history textbooks. The periods... [+] More |
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Namita Devidayal
Namita Devidayal was born in 1968 and graduated from Princeton University. A journalist with The Times of India, she lives in Mumbai.
Her first book The Music Room is her personal journey into the world of Indian classical music. It's also the story of three great singers from the Jaipur gharana, Alladiya Khan, Kesarbai and Dhondutai,... [+] More |
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Dr. Sunitha Krishnan
Dr. Sunitha Krishana sparked India's anti-trafficking movement by coordinating government, corporations and NGOs. She is the chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, a non-governmental organization in Hyderabad, opposed to forced prostitution and sex trafficking. Prajwala provides rehabilitative services for children who have been... [+] More |
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Maria Rebello
Maria Rebello from Goa on Sunday became the first female referee to officiate at the highest level of AIFF organised men’s football competition. She officiated the Delhi vs. Madhya Pradesh group stage match of the 64th Santosh Trophy being held in Kolkata.She has earned the reputation of being the first women ever to officiate the Santhosh... [+] More |
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Tejaswini Sawant
Tejaswini Sawant is the first Indian woman shooter to grab a gold medal at the World Championship. She finished on top with a world-record equalling score in the 50m Rifle Prone event in Munich, Germany.
Tejaswini Sawant, was born in 12 September 1980, in Kolhapurin Maharastra. In 2006, she won gold medals in Women’s 10m Air Rifle singles... [+] More |
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Parvathy Omanakuttan
Parvathy Omanakuttan Nair, a 20 year old Malayali girl has become the First Runner- Up of Miss World pageant 2008.Born at Changanassery, Kerala; she now resides at Mumbai with her parents. A girl who doesn’t believe in mere appearance, Parvathy dreamt of the title ‘Miss World’ from the age of seven when she saw Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya... [+] More |
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Dayamani Barla - an indigenous woman with a steely resolve
Dayamani Barla, an exceptional 44-year-old tribal woman, a journalist and an activist, from the Jharkhand region of India, was chosen for the Chingari Award for Women Against Corporate Crime 2008.
Worthy recipient
The award itself is remarkable because it has been instituted by two women who took on one of the biggest... [+] More |
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3 Things That Only Feel Like Love-These Feel Like Love but Are Far From It
These Feel Like Love but Are Far From It
Love is a tricky emotion. There are some things that feel like love but they are much too superficial to be the real thing. Real love takes time and doesn't happen over night. Here are three things that people often confuse for love.
Lust
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Lakshmi N Menon
Lakshmi N Menon was one of the most renowned women of her times. She was a good orator who had the capacity to make her audiences dumb folded. She was the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs. She wanted women to be free and independent. She was concerned with educating people. She was of the view that illiteracy is the root... [+] More |
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Suseela Gopalan
IN more ways than one, the political lives of K.R. Gouri Amma and Suseela Gopalan, the only women leaders to emerge into prominence in recent times out of Kerala’s patriarchal political climate, follow a similar trajectory.
Both were born in the politically fertile soil of Alappuzha into families whose male members had played an active... [+] More |
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K.R.Gauri Amma
The longest serving member in the Kerala Assembly, the one who has served in the largest number of Assemblies in Kerala, the oldest member in the State Assembly, the member of the first Communist Ministry in 1957 who (as Revenue Minister) piloted the land reforms Bill, one of the ablest administrators Kerala has seen�. Such... [+] More |
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Dr. Lakshmi Sehgal
Dr. Lakshmi Sehgal - Captain Lakshmi to generations of Indians - has been part of the great historical transition India has seen from colonial subjugation to freedom. A freedom fighter, a dedicated medical doctor, an outstanding leader of the women's movement in India, and a presidential candidate at the age of 87 in 2002, Captain Lakshmi... [+] More |
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A.V.Kuttimalu Amma
Smt. A.V. Kuttimalu Amma was a top ranking Congress leader of Kerala and a fearless freedom fighter. Born in Anakkara Vadakkath family of Ponnani taluq, S. Malabar, in 1905, Amma was drawn into the freedom movement in her youth. She and her husband K. Madhava Menon (former KPCC President and Minister in Madras State) actively participated... [+] More |
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Ammu Swaminathan
Ammu Swaminathan (1894-1978) was an Indian social worker and a prominent political activist during the Indian independence movement. After independence, she served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and later, as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Madras State. She was the matriarch of a family that includes people of such... [+] More |
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Mrinalini Sarabhai
Mrinalini Sarabhai is a celebrated dancer and choreographer and has achieved an international reputation that is unmatched by any contemporary Indian classical dancer. The syntax of her creativity mediates between a moral commitment to traditional form and the desire to claim one’s own experiments as unique, unrepeatable. This interface of... [+] More |
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Kamala Surayya (Kamala Das/ Madhavikutty)
Recognized as one of India's foremost poets, Kamala Das was born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar in Kerala (Dwivedi 297). Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her great uncle, Nalapat Narayan Menon, a prominent writer. Kamala remembers watching him "work from morning till night" and thinking that he had "a blissful... [+] More |
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Meira Kumar
From being a foreign service officer to a five-term MP and then a Cabinet minister, Meira Kumar has traversed a long way and a varied course that will come in handy to her in running the Lok Sabha that often throws itself into scenes of tumult.
Daughter of late Congress leader Jagjivan Ram, 64-year- old Kumar, Congress' dalit face, had a... [+] More |
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Athira Krishnan
Athira Krishnan is an internationally acclaimed violinist from India. She was born in Trivandrum, Kerala. Daughter of K. C.Krishna Pillai and S.Leela Kurup, Athira has an enviable musical lineage as the grand daughter of the illustrious Vidwan Shri. Gopala Pillai- a fabulous musician of yesteryears who belonged to the renowned Tanjore... [+] More |
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Sunita Krishnan
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan the chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, has been conferred with yet another award for her exemplary work in the field of human trafficking. On 19 April 2008, she was honored with the 'Real Heroes' award. It is also worth mentioning that... [+] More |
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Nirupama Rao
India’s Chinese ambassador Nirupama Rao is selected as the new foreign secretary of India. She would replace Shiv Shankar Menon who retires on July 31 after his three year long career as foreign secretary. Nirupama Rao will serve as foreign secretary for about 17 months and will be an officer on special duty in the MEA. She is expected to... [+] More |
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Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George, made history when she won the bronze medal in Long Jump at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Athletics Championship clearing 6.70 m.
Anju was born on April 19th, 1977 in Cheeranchira Kochuparambil family in... [+] More |
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Missile Woman of India
Tessy Thomas is going great guns at unravelling all its complexities. Though women and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles usually don't go together, Thomas is systematically breaking all glass ceilings in the avowedly male bastion of `strategic weapons'.
Tessy Thomas is the first woman to become the project director of a crucial... [+] More |
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Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009
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The International Jury of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced the award on Thursday.
Hasina has been chosen “for her... [+] More |
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Parassala B. Ponnammal
Octogenarian Carnatic vocalist Parassala B. Ponnammal has been selected for the Swati Puraskaram, 2009, instituted by the State Government.
She proved to be one of the best musicians Kerala has ever seen. Yet she always maintained an austere profile. Born to R. Mahadeva Iyer and A. Bhagavathi Ammal, in 1924, in Parassala, she was... [+] More |
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Pallavi Krishnan
Pallavi Krishnan is a leading exponent of Mohiniyattam. She is known for her efforts to promote and preserve this style of Indian classical dance as a living tradition. Initially Pallavi trained in Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam under Guru Kalamandalam Sankaranarayanan. She completed her graduation in Kathakali from Shantiniketan(Viswa... [+] More |
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Caste difference contributes to violence against Dalit women – Central India
If the crime is rape it is not easy for a lower caste woman in Central India to pursue justice. In Madhya Pradesh it is not uncommon for women to suffer atrocities, including sexual violence, for the actions of their male relatives.
The Scheduled Caste in India, known as the “dalit” or the “untouchables”, makes up only 16.2% of the... [+] More |
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Important Telephone Numbers in Kerala
State Vanitha Cell (TVM) : 0471-2338100
Vanitha Police Station, Trivandrum : 0471-2321555
Women’s Cell, Kollam : 0474-2742376
Women’s Cell, Pathanamthitta : 0468-2222927
Women’s Cell, Kottayam : 0468-2222927
Women’s Cell, Kottayam : 0481-2302977
Women’s Cell, Idukki : 9745769386
Women’s Cell, Kochi : 0484-2396730
Women’s Cell, Thrissur : 9745-796230
Women’s Cell, Palakkad : 0491-2522340
Women’s Cell, Malappuram : 9745-769151
Women’s Cell, Kozhikode : 0495-2724070
Women’s Cell, Wayanad : 9745-769072
Women’s Cell, Kannur : 9745-769032
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