What is 'Women Empowerment'? With the advent of 'women empowerment' in the Indian sub-continent, women issues are being taken seriously. By 'seriously' I mean that they are seriously talked about and debated upon. They are being accepted and rejected. We must understand that women empowerment doesn't mean 'not to rape a lonely woman on street', it doesn't mean 'letting them have time for themselves', it doesn't mean 'helping them picking up the luggage', it doesn't mean 'not to remark them on their dressing sense', it doesn't mean 'not asking for dowry in marriage'. People who come across this word for the first time often confuse women rights, women protection and gentlemanly behaviour with women empowerment. Before debating upon this topic, one must know the actual meaning of women empowerment. People had been writing books on it, which in turn are being read by other writers only! Then the questi...
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Mr. Ajay Upadhyay Gandhi’s Printing Press There was an event held at Gandhi Peace Foudation, Delhi on November 30, 2015 to mark the 117 th anniversary of Gandhi’s Printing Press (November 29, 1898). The event was a knowledge sharing session and the speaker was Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor. His analysis was based on Isabel Hofmeyr’s book – Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in slow reading. Here is a brief report: Mr. Ajay Upadhyay, a senior journalist and editor, was intrigued by the message of Mahatma Gandhi, when he started his career as a young lawyer in South Africa. His political philosophy was under evolution when out of the blue, he was taken in by an apparently unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi’s printing press is an insight into how this idea of a newspaper, India...