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Mrinal [Gore], Ahilya Rangnekar and Pramila Dandavate were contemporaries. Decades before feminist politics became fodder for thought and trigger for action, Bombay’s tais (elder sisters) had left their imprint on its streets, tenements and slums without contextualising their engagements with its people as a gender conflict.

Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, freedom fighter and close aide of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who died in Kanpur, aged 98, was born in Chennai and worked as a doctor in the city.

Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. But how is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy?

Today there is only the cruel choice between continued American presence and Taliban rule

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Kolkata plays host to sex workers conference
Kolkata, Sun, 22 Jul 2012
Kolkata, July 22 (ANI): Sex workers from over 41 countries, who were denied permission to attend the International AIDS Conference in the U.S., held a parallel conference here.
Titled the Sex Worker Freedom Festival, the weeklong conference that commenced on Saturday was organised by the Durbar Mahila Samanvaya Committee (DMSC), and was attended by over 550 sex workers.
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