Women's Feature Service

The gingelly oil bath is a crucial element of the Diwali festivities for Brahmins in Tamil Nadu. So much so that the older generation used to greet each other on Diwali day with the one-liner: 'Had the Ganga bath?' Lakhsmi's mother, Shrimathi, sh

Many international epidemiologists believe that the global polio eradication effort has more or less plateaued, yet they concede that India may perhaps be inching towards succeeding in suspending polio transmission.

While women who cannot bear children often endure great physical and emotional pain for years to have their 'own' biological children, these single mothers cut the physical, social and emotional chase with their revolutionary choices.

But Jha has changed her stance on public buses now, thanks to a new bus service in town exclusively for women and they come with women conductors on board. It's an initiative of the state government under which a private bus operator in Patna has b

In spite of the vital importance of this new work opportunity, the participation of women in NREGA was below the stipulated minimum of 33 per cent in our sample, and in many of the survey areas it was abysmally low. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were at t