Women's Feature Service

Thanks to this initiative, Pushpa and her friends are slowly learning to understand the world better. They now know the advantages of reading, writing and calculating

By ship, it takes sixteen hours to reach Carnic, the northernmost inhabited island, but we were on a Dornier aircraft, with a team of six colleagues from the Tsunami Relief Project of the Planning Commission.

The legal situation in India is in sharp contrast to that existing in many other countries. In Germany and Canada surrogacy is outlawed or prohibited, in the United Kingdom it is highly regulated and very expensive.

This advice literally proved to be a life saver. It made me realise that you don't have to be rich to cope with diabetes. The only investment you have to make is in a good pair of walking shoes - and perhaps a portable music system to help you cope

Today, women filmmakers across the globe are making their kind of movies and creating their own special space in world cinema. From edgy memoirs to futuristic fiction, from coming-of-agers to romantic comedies, from war dramas to hard-hitting docume