Social service to the mankind considered as the highest state of life. Very few woman only
stepped out from the home and doing the social activities. Our social structure won't allow women to struggle against the injustices. Through Writings and Protests they are acting against the Government's illegeal decisions.
Here are few woman social workers i always applaud their social work to the nation.
1 ) Arundathi Roy
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India,[1] to Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard da Cunha.
Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib. Until made financially stable by the success of her novel The God of Small Things, she worked various jobs, including running aerobics classes at five-star hotels in New Delhi. Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian TV media group NDTV,.[2] She lives in New Delhi.
2 ) Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to Indu and Vasant Khanolkar, a trade union leader and freedom fighter.[1] She was raised by politically and socially active parents. Her father actively fought in the Indian Independence Movement[citation needed]. Her mother was a member of Swadar, an organization setup to help and assist women suffering difficult circumstances arising out of financial, educational, and health related problems. Her parents' activism played a role in shaping her philosophical views.She was often known for her extreme views on growth of country and liberalization.[2]
She did her M.A. in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Author Jacques Leslie devoted a third of his book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), to a portrait of Patkar as she planned to drown herself in rising reservoir waters behind the Sardar Sarovar Dam, whose construction she fought for two decades.
3) Aruna Roy
Aruna was born in Chennai on May 26, 1946, to a Hindu couple from Tamil Nadu, Hema and Elupai Doraiswami Jayaram. Hema herself was born to an inter-caste couple though within the brahmin sect, with her mother being an Iyer and her father, an Iyengar. Aruna's maternal grandparents, though belonging to the brahmin sect, brought their children with modern ideals, and Hema had her schooling in a Christian school. Jayaram came from a family of lawyers, with his father and uncle holding law degrees from England. Jayaram also had many social activists in his family, with he himself involved in the Indian Independence movement. Post Independence, Jayaram served as a civil servant to the Government of India. He was serving as a legal advisor to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research when he retired from service. The Hema-Jayaram couple had four children, three girls and one boy, and Aruna was the eldest. The couple was living in New Delhi mostly, and Aruna was put under the care of her grandparents when she started her schooling in a Catholic convent in Chennai. Soon she returned to Delhi, where she was put in the elitist Convent of Jesus and Mary, with its pupils being mostly non Indians. After five years there, she was sent to Kalakshetra, an arts school in Chennai, where she learnt Bharatnatyam and carnatic music for two years. After that, she was admitted into the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, before joining Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi, where she had her precollegiate education.[
4) Irom Sharmila
On November 2, 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were allegedly shot and killed by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state, while waiting at a bus stop.[4][5] The incident later came to be known to activists as the "Malom Massacre".[6] The next day's local newspapers published graphic pictures of the dead bodies, including one of a 62-year old woman, Leisangbam Ibetomi, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner.[5]
Sharmila, the 28-year-old daughter of a Grade IV veterinary worker, began to fast in protest of the killings, taking neither food nor water.[7] As her brother Irom Singhajit Singh recalled, "The killings took place on 2 November 2000. It was a Thursday. Sharmila used to fast on Thursdays since she was a child. That day she was fasting too. She has just continued with her fast". 4 November is also given as the start day of her fast. On the Friday third of November she has a last supper of pastries and sweet things then she touches her mother's feet and asks permission to fulfill her bounden duty.[8] Her primary demand to the Indian government was the repeal of the AFSPA, which allowed soldiers to indefinitely detain any citizen on suspicion of being a rebel.[4] The act has been blamed by opposition and human rights groups for permitting torture, forced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions.[4][7]
Three days after she began her strike, she was arrested by the police and charged with an "attempt to commit suicide", which is unlawful under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, and was later transferred to judicial custody.[8] Her health deteriorated rapidly, and the police then forcibly had to use nasogastric intubation in order to keep her alive while under arrest.[3] Since then, Irom Sharmila has been regularly released and re-arrested every year since under IPC section 309, a person who "attempts to commit suicide" is punishable "with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year [or with fine, or with both]"
5) Mamtha Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee was born to Gayetri and Promileswar Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She grew up in a lower middle-class family and started her political career in Congress[clarification needed]. As a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks[clarification needed] to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976–80).[10] She was a college student in the mid-1970s when politics in Bengal began to accommodate the riffraff[clarification needed]. Uninhibited, Banerjee jumped up and danced on the hood of Jaiprakash Narayan's car in order to get noticed by the bigshots of Congress.
Banerjee graduated with an honours degree in History from the Jogamaya Devi College, an undergraduate women's college in southern Kolkata.[11][12] Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. She also earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.[13]
Throughout her political life Banerjee has maintained an austere lifestyle, never spending much money on clothes, cosmetics or jewellery and always with a cotton bag slung on her shoulder. She has remained single throughout her life.
stepped out from the home and doing the social activities. Our social structure won't allow women to struggle against the injustices. Through Writings and Protests they are acting against the Government's illegeal decisions.
Here are few woman social workers i always applaud their social work to the nation.
1 ) Arundathi Roy
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India,[1] to Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard da Cunha.
Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib. Until made financially stable by the success of her novel The God of Small Things, she worked various jobs, including running aerobics classes at five-star hotels in New Delhi. Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian TV media group NDTV,.[2] She lives in New Delhi.
2 ) Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra to Indu and Vasant Khanolkar, a trade union leader and freedom fighter.[1] She was raised by politically and socially active parents. Her father actively fought in the Indian Independence Movement[citation needed]. Her mother was a member of Swadar, an organization setup to help and assist women suffering difficult circumstances arising out of financial, educational, and health related problems. Her parents' activism played a role in shaping her philosophical views.She was often known for her extreme views on growth of country and liberalization.[2]
She did her M.A. in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Author Jacques Leslie devoted a third of his book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), to a portrait of Patkar as she planned to drown herself in rising reservoir waters behind the Sardar Sarovar Dam, whose construction she fought for two decades.
3) Aruna Roy
Aruna was born in Chennai on May 26, 1946, to a Hindu couple from Tamil Nadu, Hema and Elupai Doraiswami Jayaram. Hema herself was born to an inter-caste couple though within the brahmin sect, with her mother being an Iyer and her father, an Iyengar. Aruna's maternal grandparents, though belonging to the brahmin sect, brought their children with modern ideals, and Hema had her schooling in a Christian school. Jayaram came from a family of lawyers, with his father and uncle holding law degrees from England. Jayaram also had many social activists in his family, with he himself involved in the Indian Independence movement. Post Independence, Jayaram served as a civil servant to the Government of India. He was serving as a legal advisor to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research when he retired from service. The Hema-Jayaram couple had four children, three girls and one boy, and Aruna was the eldest. The couple was living in New Delhi mostly, and Aruna was put under the care of her grandparents when she started her schooling in a Catholic convent in Chennai. Soon she returned to Delhi, where she was put in the elitist Convent of Jesus and Mary, with its pupils being mostly non Indians. After five years there, she was sent to Kalakshetra, an arts school in Chennai, where she learnt Bharatnatyam and carnatic music for two years. After that, she was admitted into the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, before joining Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi, where she had her precollegiate education.[
4) Irom Sharmila
On November 2, 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were allegedly shot and killed by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state, while waiting at a bus stop.[4][5] The incident later came to be known to activists as the "Malom Massacre".[6] The next day's local newspapers published graphic pictures of the dead bodies, including one of a 62-year old woman, Leisangbam Ibetomi, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner.[5]
Sharmila, the 28-year-old daughter of a Grade IV veterinary worker, began to fast in protest of the killings, taking neither food nor water.[7] As her brother Irom Singhajit Singh recalled, "The killings took place on 2 November 2000. It was a Thursday. Sharmila used to fast on Thursdays since she was a child. That day she was fasting too. She has just continued with her fast". 4 November is also given as the start day of her fast. On the Friday third of November she has a last supper of pastries and sweet things then she touches her mother's feet and asks permission to fulfill her bounden duty.[8] Her primary demand to the Indian government was the repeal of the AFSPA, which allowed soldiers to indefinitely detain any citizen on suspicion of being a rebel.[4] The act has been blamed by opposition and human rights groups for permitting torture, forced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions.[4][7]
Three days after she began her strike, she was arrested by the police and charged with an "attempt to commit suicide", which is unlawful under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, and was later transferred to judicial custody.[8] Her health deteriorated rapidly, and the police then forcibly had to use nasogastric intubation in order to keep her alive while under arrest.[3] Since then, Irom Sharmila has been regularly released and re-arrested every year since under IPC section 309, a person who "attempts to commit suicide" is punishable "with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year [or with fine, or with both]"
5) Mamtha Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee was born to Gayetri and Promileswar Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She grew up in a lower middle-class family and started her political career in Congress[clarification needed]. As a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks[clarification needed] to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976–80).[10] She was a college student in the mid-1970s when politics in Bengal began to accommodate the riffraff[clarification needed]. Uninhibited, Banerjee jumped up and danced on the hood of Jaiprakash Narayan's car in order to get noticed by the bigshots of Congress.
Banerjee graduated with an honours degree in History from the Jogamaya Devi College, an undergraduate women's college in southern Kolkata.[11][12] Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. She also earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.[13]
Throughout her political life Banerjee has maintained an austere lifestyle, never spending much money on clothes, cosmetics or jewellery and always with a cotton bag slung on her shoulder. She has remained single throughout her life.
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