Thalaiyuthu panchayat, Tirunelveli district (Tamil Nadu): P Krishnaveni remembers the night of 13 June, 2011, clear as day. Barely 200 m from her home of 15 …
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Nachangulam Panchayat, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): What is it like to do a full-time job without a salary? Especially if you are a dalit or an adivasi …
Meagre Funds, No Salary: How Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Still Succeed Read More »
Madhavakurichi Panchayat, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu: It wasn’t personal ambition that drove K Muthukanni to stand for election as panchayat president from Madhavakurichi in Mannur block of …
Why Muthukanni, A Dalit, Had To Build Her Own Panchayat Office Read More »
Urapakkam (Kancheepuram district), Tamil Nadu: Even by normal standards of violence in Tamil Nadu’s panchayat politics, the events of March 29, 2001, were troubling. Menaka, 35, the …
Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Live, Work In The Shadow Of Violence Read More »
Chennai: Salma (50), the deputy secretary of the women’s wing of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), is among the few women to have made the transition from …
Why 277,160 Women Leaders Remain Invisible To Tamil Nadu’s Political Parties Read More »
Padiganalam, Krishnagiri district (Tamil Nadu): Married against her wishes at 11 to her dead sister’s husband, Sidhamallamma Kanchappa gave birth to her first child at home when …
Illiterate, Married at 11, Mother At 12: Panchayat President Now Changes Fates Read More »
Sittilinghi, Dharmapuri district (Tamil Nadu): Nestled in a sylvan valley in northwestern Tamil Nadu and surrounded by forests, the village council, or panchayat, of Sittilinghi struggled to …
In A Sylvan Valley, One Woman Reveals, Changes Lives Obscured By Beauty Read More »
Melamarungoor, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): Mazharkodi Dhanasekar has a radiant smile and is keen to talk about her achievements, which, as it emerges, are considerable: Building 650 …
The Woman Who Brought Drinking Water, Toilets To A Lost Panchayat Read More »
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