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Rajasthan's first Muslim woman IRS officer is living her dream

Neelam Gupta Farah Hussain grew up in a family where public service was a way of life. Her mother, Rukhsana Hussain, came from a family of Army officers, while her father, Ashfaq Hussain, belonged to a family of IAS officers. Given this background, it would have been natural for her to marry an IAS officer and settle into that life. Instead, Farah chose a different path. She wanted to earn the distinction herself rather than be known m...

Writer-Journo Zeenat Kaife fought against patriarchy, orthodoxy

Neelam Gupta "My entire family had gone to attend a wedding. While we were there, my grandmother got me engaged. I was in Class III at St. Joseph's School in Jaipur." Senior journalist and Urdu writer Zeenat Kaife begins the story of her life that she shaped by courage, defiance, heartbreak, and determination. "My father was a college lecturer. Neither he nor my mother approved of the engagement, but they remained si...

Dr Shaista Anjum's life symbolises triumph against all odds

Neelam Gupta With a sparkle in her eyes and a deep sense of contentment on her face, Dr. Shaista Anjum narrates the story of her life in a calm, measured voice. "It was my mother's dream that I become a doctor. After completing my MBBS, it was my husband who insisted that I pursue an MS as well. My mother-in-law not only took care of my daughter while I studied but, even today, she makes every effort to ensure that I do not have t...

Chopra's memories of seeing Afghans' joy at getting Jaipur foot

Neelam Gupta/Jaipur Vimal Chopra, a chartered accountant from Jaipur, Rajasthan, is still reeling from his experience of administering the Jaipur foot in Afghanistan. "This experience was amazing; It was my first camp,” says Chopra, who was the leader of the camp where 75 Afghans were fitted with Jaipur foot. Chopra volunteers for Shri Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), the makers of the famous prosthetic Jaip...

Millet Man of India Dr. Khadar Valli says eat one millet a day to avoid disease

Neelam Gupta/New Delhi Dr. Khadar Valli D, India’s Millet Man says the food sector is captured by big businesses that make the farmers grow what they want, and make the public eat what is profitable to them. He said as a result the farmer is losing conventional wisdom and choice to grow while youth are made to forget the local and community foods. This, he says, is the biggest danger facing mankind on the planet. Khader Valli was...

Farida Jalees proves Ramzan plus Navratri is a good business model

Neelam Gupta/New Delhi When Lucknow’s Jeevika Bakers put up a stall at Vikas Nagar with a board “Food material for Navratri and Food packets for Iftar available” little did its founder Farida Jalees know that her experiment to make a point about the unity of the people of India’s major religions would also translate into a great business idea. Although it’s quite often that the 9-day ...

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Katrina-Vicky wedding is happening in a renovated Fort

Neelam Gupta/New Delhi While Udaipur and Jodhpur have been favourite haunts of the rich Indians for a destination wedding, Bollywood superstars Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal’s choice of a nondescript yet historic Rajasthan village for their nuptials has brought this hitherto unexplored region of the State into focus. Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal are get married amidst family and close friends in the Six Senses Fort, a heri...

Abdul Hanif Zaidi: glorious 50 years of photography

Neelam Gupta/New delhi After I shifted to Delhi for work, it happened rarely that I was visiting Kota, my native place, and returning without seeing Hanif Zaidi and his lovely wife Razia. Either they came home or I visited theirs'. While I and Razia would be engrossed in a conversation, Zaidi clicked pictures; sometimes we even posed for him. The pictures will be home delivered by Zaidi the next day. The pictu...

Farida Jalees used lockdown to create new livelihoods for women

Neelam Gupta/New Delhi Santoshi, Laxmi, and Rakhi are now ready to don an apron and a cap to start their bakery units and make a living out of it. For many years, they only knew how to create intricate designs of Chikankari, Zardozi, and other traditional embroideries with needles and thread on clothes. They learned the art of baking food during the second wave of Corona when people all around were running to hospitals spendin...

Women plant 500 Banyans in Rajasthan village

Neelam Gupta/Jaipur Three days before Hariyali Teej, a Hindu festival when women pray for the long life of their husbands, Village Manda Bhopawas in Rajasthan presented a mesmerising view. Some 500 women dressed in ciolourful sarees, their faces with a touch up of makeup and hands painted in delicate floral designs in henna, had descended here. They were there to follow and also break traditions at the same time. ...

How Ila Bhatt's SEWA changed lives of 10,000 Afghan women

Neelam Gupta/New Delhi On August 15, when the Taliban were entering Kabul to seal their victory in Afghanistan, six women were busy in an online meeting with the officials of the Ahmedabad-based NGO Self-Employed Women Association (SEWA), oblivious of the changes in the city and the country. These Afghan women were the master trainers leading a program of skill development for women and organizing them into self-...

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