The first book (The Shaping of the Artist) of a six-book series on Raja Ravi Varma’s life and legacy is set to be released on April 9 at Lukshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara. Here s a sneak peek at some of the images featured in the series.
This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history
In this excerpt from Kavitha Rao’s ‘Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine’, the story of Rukhmabai Raut. Rukhmabai Raut. | Public domain
“‘Men cannot, in the least, understand the wretchedness which we Hindu women have to endure. Because you cannot enter our feelings, do not think that we are satisfied with the life of drudgery that we live, and that we have no taste for an aspiration after a higher life.”
It is March 1887. A young woman stands in a Mumbai court room, facing the husband she despises. Shortly, a judge is going to pronounce on whether a Hindu wife can break the sacrament of a child marriage. She is twenty-two, but she has never lived with her husband, and never wants to.
An Ongoing Struggle For Women s Freedoms
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Enactment of anti-love jihad laws across India, not just criminalises love, but robs a woman of her individuality and independent existence. Overlooking their capabilities, the government of today seeks to shatter the choices and freedoms of Indian women by confining them to the domestic sphere, even deciding who to love and live with. Dr. Rukhmabai, India s first.
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