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Soni Sori is one of the five people worldwide recognized this year for their humanitarian work by human rights group Front Line Defenders. A fierce voice against the Chhattisgarh government’s excesses, this award highlights her struggle and the government’s apathy. Here’s Kamal Shukla’s report

During a speech in the city’s Gandhi Maidan, Phoolan Devi had appealed to the activists of her outfit to educate their daughters and not make them cowards

The forces of dominance spread all sorts of disinformation about Phule and Ambedkar. They circulated rumours and cultivated prejudice. One of their stratagems was to declare the two men heroes of particular castes

The flame lit by ‘Krantijyoti’ Savitribai Phule has been kept burning by a women’s volunteer organization in Pune, the very city in which India’s social revolution was launched

Savitribai’s contributions were not only limited to the field of education. In 1852, she established the Mahila Seva Mandal (Women’s Service Organization) with the objective of improving the lot of Indian women. She was thus the first leader of the Indian feminist movement