Poverty and gender did not deter this strong-minded woman from Uttarakhand
Ramesh Menon
Sunday, March 16, 2008 03:52 IST
Many of us choose to become a victim of our circumstances. We resign ourselves to what we call fate as if we were helpless. When we do that, we’re taking the easiest way out. Like the saying: “Anyone [...]

The CPM office near Clocktower in Dehradun is a small single room office, but that wasn’t enough for it be spared from the RSS mob gathered outside. For ten minutes, long-time party activists Lekhraj and Pradeep Sharma had to endure the pelting of bricks that also heavily damaged neighbouring buildings including a Tibetan-owned restaurant. On [...]