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  .                     Vandana Luthra. Indra Nooyi. Aditi Gupta. Shehnaaz Hussain. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. Bingo! You got that right. Few of the most inspiring Women Entrepreneurs of India. Known for both their gut and wit, these wonderful ladies have their own stories to tell. That brings us to #WiseWednesdays of today where we get to know one of such women entrepreneurs who made her way right from scratch. Born in 1961 in Vidarbha, Maharashtra into a Dalit family as the eldest of three daughters and two sons, she never imagined where life would take her. She was married at the age of 12 and lived with her in-laws and husband who didn't leave any stone unturned to turn her into a mere walking corpse within 6 months of her marriage owed to the abuse she went through for not being the perfect homemaker. Thankfully, her father was moved by her condition and decided to take her back home breaking all ties with her husband and in...

  Every year on 15th of September we celebrate National Engineer's Day to appreciate the contributions of Bharat Ratna awardee Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya as a tribute on his birth day. And I recently found out that annually we Indians produce more number of Engineers compared to the ones from US and China combinedly put together. I guess it is high time we declare ENGINEERING the National Education of our country. Just like we have a National Sport, National Bird, National Flower and National Anthem. Today, in #wisewednesdays I am bringing across to you someone who most of you might not have heard or known about despite being an Engineer yourself. Born on 27th August 1919 in a Telugu family with four older and two younger siblings, she made history as the first woman Engineer (Electrical Engineering) of India. She was married in 1934 at the age of 15 and continued to study post her marriage. Yes. Child marriages were still prevalent then. She gave birth to a daughter in 1937...

  The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of equality of the sexes is the dictionary definition of FEMINISM . Don’t worry. I am not going to write about Feminism today. It is way to heavy a topic to be written about for my #wisewednesdays . But it is definitely something worth being read. Have no doubts about that. Not just because I am writing it, but also because of who it is being written about. I am sure most of you must be familiar about her, it’s ok even if you are not. No one is going to fine you for that. A social reformer, educationalist and a poet, she is regarded as the first female teacher of India. She opposed several of the then prevalent societal ills like child marriage, sati, untouchability, gender and caste based discrimination and advocated strongly for widow re marriages and inter caste marriages. Born on 3rd January, 1831 and married at the age of 9 to a 13 year old social reformer who not only encouraged her to educate herself but supported her quest to...

  PART - I Do you think #learning is limited to application of knowledge already acquired by someone? Or does it have to do with looking at new things too? In every aspect of life, we come across models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from education to business, from relationships to careers. In order to embrace the new logic of value creation we have to learn it first. But learning isn't the problem. No. It is #unlearning that is the problem. Let's find out more about this on #Mangalmaza WHAT IS UNLEARNING ? Most of us think that unlearning is to do with forgetting what we had earlier learnt. But that's not it. In simple terms unlearning is to do away with the old to give way to the new. When we learn, we add new skills or knowledge to what we already know. When we unlearn, we step out side of what we already know and choose a different alternative. Most of it is to do with the myths and paradigms that we have been fed up on while growing up. WHY SHOULD WE UNLEARN ...