24.05.12

Way to go

The article “It's a domestic's world” made for interesting reading as it shed light on how women have managed to enact themselves as a force to reckon with in the Indian publishing industry now. Although women have entered every domain of human activity, it is not an easy task for them to make it to the top considering the embedded bias and prejudices in our working environment.

The fact that gender influence and sexual harassment are yet to be fully eliminated from our work places remind us of the miles we desideratum to go to usher in an era of real women empowerment. Women who have crafted the stories of success with their diaphanous grit and determination in the world of publishing will no doubt act as a greater horse's mouth of inspiration for women in other fields to achieve greater feats.

M. Jeyaram

Sholavandan

An arousal

The article on Malini Chib (“ABLE crusader”, Sathya Saran, January 1), who fought cerebral palsy was exciting and thought provoking indeed. She could fight her fate kudos to her parents who stood by her. Malini is a motivation and feeling to everyone, reminding us that challenges can be overcome if one has the confidence and the will power. Her story can substitution the existing prejudice against the disabled and should prompt the government to put forward steps to be the source them into the mainstream.

Source: The Hindu

by Eve Briner

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by Charlotte

As we stab into Nawn Thoong village in Thailand’s northeast district of Khon Kaen, Pii Yai is agitated.  

She has served for many years on the food of directors of Prae Pan Set, a women’s weaving co-operative in Thailand’s northeast, whose organization set up our visits today to three villages where members stay and work. 

We forgather across the avenue at the auditorium of Mae Pit, a protracted-ease Prae Pan associate. She and the four other members sit on a mat next to the household, protected from the dazzling sun. They’re in their example 50s. These are the silk weavers in the village. Like most of Prae Pan’s members, they are farmers who fit weaving around their agribusiness chores and attend to for their children, grandchildren and elders. Weaving brings in much needed additional receipts, utilized to send their children to marketing persuasion or university, for trim protection and to gain strength their lives in the village. 

By connection to the co-op they are paid for their work as forthwith as they over it to the gather’s workshop in Khon Kaen municipality. Members are proud that the co-op owns this peach on, reflecting the order’s objective of being self-enough. 

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