Category: Persona – Women’s World

An entirely new concern is emerging in one’s consciousness. When we look around and talk to teenage kids, we realise that generally speaking, most of them seem inspired by small goals…Continue reading“Mothering for achievement” – 27 June 2012

When Supriya went on maternity leave, she had thought that she would be happy to go back to work on time. But as the joining date came closer she developed…Continue reading“Poor career orientation”- 13 June 2012

The real-life story of Bangalore’s Revanna Umadevi Nagraj is very inspiring. Just a typist in a Karnataka Government department, she stumbled upon billiards and got hooked on. Then finding enough…Continue reading“Trouble is that we don’t decide”- 30 May 2012

The picture of Aung San Suu Kyi standing in Myanmar Parliament taking oath appears just fascinating particularly against the background of many members in military uniforms laced with medals and…Continue reading“Tribute to womanhood”- 16 May 2012

  A few days ago, the Mamata Banerjee Government in West Bengal transferred Damayanti Sen, the dashing first woman chief of the Kolkata’s Crime Branch. The reason of effecting the…Continue reading“Yet another brave woman”- 25 April 2012

The girl had no choice but to run away from home. Well, that is what she thought fearfully in her mind. She had panicked the moment she was informed by…Continue reading“Trust your daughter”- 11 March 2012

I received an interesting feedback from a woman to my last column “emerging identity”. I reproduce the comments here for readers to judge its merit and demerits. The lady X…Continue reading“Emerging identities- yet to emerge”- 21 March 2012

She was qualified as a software professional with a job in a good company. A reasonably good proposal for marriage had been received by her parents and that day the…Continue reading“Emerging Identity”- 7 March 2012

A recent news report tells us that ‘Delhi Police women’s helpline keeps getting lewd, abusive calls’. Is that shocking or humorous? Is that shameful or amusing? Your reaction to this…Continue reading“Abusing women police”- 22 February 2012

Madhumati never saw herself as a boss. All these years, she worked as an executive in the second-from-top layer in management of the big company. She worked with the top…Continue reading“Big problem if big boss is a woman”- 8 February 2012