Neena Sharma
Tribune News Service, March 7, 2009
Behind the ever-smiling face of Garhwali women lies steely resolve and hard work. From discharging her duties at home to participating in social movements, the women are the main cogs in the wheel driving the state of Uttarakhand.
However, the route to empowerment of women has not been without its [...]

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 [...]

Laxmi Ashram takes up the challenge to create awareness
2008 declared “Save the Rivers Year”
By Aarti Dhar
The Hindu, 27 Jan 2008
NEW DELHI: Global warming, climate change and environmental degradation are terms experts discuss on international fora. Women in Almora district of Uttarakhand may not be able to give the meaning of these words, but can tell [...]

Garhwal Post, 10 January 2008
Dehradun, 9 Jan: On the ninth day of the “Save the Rivers Campaign”, activists in the Mandakini valley addressed two important meetings in Rampur and Tilawara. Women turned up in large numbers to attend these meetings.
The padayatra started from Agyastmuni and went upto Tilwara via Rampur. A gathering of 40 women [...]

Former actress devotes herself to India’s forlorn
By Cassie Biggs
Associated Press
Published July 4, 2007
RISHIKESH, India — Maggie O’Hara may have left the false eyelashes and spike heels behind when she ditched Hollywood for the banks of India’s sacred Ganges River, but the fiftysomething still knows how to command an audience.
Up the winding mountain path, at the [...]

Garhwal Post, 29 April 2007
By OUR STAFF REPORTER
DEHRADUN, 28 Apr: ‘Yamuna’, a book on the condition of women of Uttarakhand undergoing change from 1994 till today was released here today at a function held at the press club.
The Chief Guest on the occasion was Haryana ADGP Vikas Narayan Rai. The book has been written by [...]

24-04-2007 (New Delhi)
Women self help groups are playing an increasingly important role since the community radio station “Mandakini Ki Awaaz” (The Voice of Mandakini) located in Bhanaj, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India started its operations in 2004.
In the last few months, their participation has registered a quantum leap forward with the women taking ownership of the [...]

Their status is much like that of a memorial – a fast fading memory of a distant past opines Prarthna Gahilote, reporting for IBN News.
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Prarthna Gahilote, CNN-IBN
February 16, 2007
Dehradun: Women played an important role in Uttarakhand statehood movement. But on the eve of the second assembly elections in the state, women [...]

NDTV has produced an important news item that speaks volumes about the current election season. It seems this time around, all parties have dropped any pretense of gender equality, and opted to elect the old boys’ networks from their ranks.
That Sushila Baloni was denied a ticket from Rajpur for the BJP is ironic, considering she [...]

DEHRADUN, FEB 3 (PTI)
A local NGO has come to the help of women candidates “ignored” by political parties and contesting as independents for the February 21 state assembly elections.
“We will openly support with volunteers and other resources women contesting elections independently and those seeking our support,” said Avdhash Kaushal, Chairman of Rural Litigation and Entitlement [...]