प्राचीन काल से हस्तशिल्प कला हमारे संस्कृति और हुनर की पहचान को बनाने का एक अहम् हिस्सा रही है। हस्तकला की लोकप्रियता दूर दूर तक है चाहे वो विदेश हो या यहाँ अपने देश मे। हस्तकला क्षेत्र में हस्तशिल्पियों की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका रही है, और उनका हस्तकला को आगे बढ़ाने मे योगदान और उसके प्रति उनका समर्पण बहुत ही सराहनीय है। किसी भी कला मे उकेरी गयी आकृति हो या उनमे मन मोह लेने वाले रंग, सभी मे कला और रचनात्मिक्ता है। Read more

Let us remember, celebrate and resolve to lift each other as women because it is only when women rise together we can truly claim a world of equality Priya Paul Chairperson - Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels & Co-Founding Director of WFI (SAWF IN) Read more

They were leading simple rural lives, yet the passion inside them burned so deep that they projected the power to transform society from its core Debdatta Purkayastha Supporter- Feminist Movement @WFI (SAWF IN) Read more

Women belong in places where decisions are being made- It shouldn’t be that the women are the exception Sunanda Rangarajan Head of CSR, Omega Healthcare Read more

I think of the innumerable times I have drawn strength from women’s collectives and groups I have been part of and marvel at the bonds we built across lines of language, caste and class Anuradha Rajan Executive Director - WFI (SAWF IN) Read more

There are no limits to what a woman can achieve when she sets her heart to it, and when empowered women empower other women, there is a ripple effect in terms of a strong, conscious, enabling community. Salon-I is a living testament to this Sagarika Bose Lead CSR, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd Read more

Grants narrowly focused on few strategies to prevent or address GBV to the exclusion of a more comprehensive understanding of women’s lived realities may miss how changes in different spheres can work together to empower women. Feminist organisations shouldn’t have to demonstrate why they work on so many different fronts which touch upon women’s lives and not have a narrow specialized focus of work. The funding community need to be able to make flexible funding available so that organisations can tailor their programs to their particular contexts, of which they are the experts- Amita Pitre, Oxfam International Read more

VAW manifests itself in the public as well as within private spaces. While incidents of violence in public spaces intimidate women and act as barriers for women’s mobility and accessibility of such spaces including workspaces, domestic violence or violence in private spaces are often manifested in deteriorating mental and physical health of women and children within the household in addition to acting as barriers in mobility. The triggers to VAW are often linked to exercising control and power of women’s bodies but recent data by NFHS also reveals that as women earn, violence is triggered to gain access to women’s earnings.- Sona Mitra, Principal Economist, IWWAGE and Preethi Rao, Associate Director, Lead at Krea University Read more

‘In my own efforts at implementing programs in the past, I have had a chance to see how activities within the school setting normalize gender-based roles...Thus any effort to bring parity of gender in textbooks can lose its edge or capacity to spur critical thinking unless the teachers make a conscious effort at bringing attention to the social structure which continues to dominate the sense of what is normal.- Ujjwal Banerjee, Senior Programme Manager, Education, HT Parekh Foundation Read more

As a key supporter of SAWF IN’s one-of-a-kind Legal Fellowship Programme I am convinced that strengthening women lawyers working at primary courts and equipping them with Feminist Lawyering skills are necessary to make justice truly accessible to women survivors of violence.- Priya Paul, Founding Director, SAWF IN Read more

As we raise our collective voice against the shadow pandemic of domestic violence, we have to recognise the need to marshal measures that build women’s self-confidence and awareness but also enable women to claim resources that consolidate this consciousness-raising. Among these resources, economic resilience building is known to play a very crucial role in enabling women to navigate the choices they have to make in the face of abuse. Read more