At a time when equality and women's empowerment were notions still unheard of, Sarla Thakur became the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft. Born in 1914, she earned an aviation pilot license in 1936 at the age of 21. By that time she was already married and had a four-year-old daughter. In spite of … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
Author: Incredible Women of India
Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." Every woman should read Virginia Woolf. Or, at the very least, every woman should read A Room of One's Own. I was about to give a summary of some … Continue reading Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
Kamla Bhasin is an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Her work spans across 35 years and focuses on gender, education, human development and the media. Best known for her work on the NGO Sangat- a South Asian network of feminists, and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
Atypical Hibernation
I spent my first Canadian winter in home-confinement. I had never experienced snow or lived in extreme winter conditions before. Snow had merely been a childhood fantasy, picked up from Russian fairy-tales. My husband was transferred to Calgary, a booming oil-city in Western Canada by his company in Singapore. He started working almost immediately and … Continue reading Atypical Hibernation
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C. S. Lakshmi is an Indian feminist writer and independent researcher in women's studies from India. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai. Lakshmi was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in 1944. She grew up in Mumbai and Bangalore. She obtained her M.A in Bangalore and her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her dissertation … Continue reading Femcyclopaedia by Kirthi Jayakumar
INCREDIBLE WOMEN OF INDIA 