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Savitribai was founder of modern women education in India. She struggled, criticized a lot in past. She not only fought for right education for girls but also for the right to dignity for widows, unwed mothers and women with unwanted pregnancies. She understood the importance of women education, even she understood the importance of knowing English. In spite of continuous harassment, she did not stop with her efforts. Many revolutions took place in the world like agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, information revolution, bio revolution but all these revolutions could not end the problems and sufferings of human being. She worked for the women when women were objects to be used, education for them was considered as a crime. She spoke against all boundaries because she was the woman of modern thoughts. She ignited many lives for which today’s women should be grateful. Today’s women tasting the fruit of that tree of education which was planted and nourished by Savitribal Phul

 The Second letter is about a great social taboo – a love affair between a Brahman boy and an Untouchable girl; the cruel behavior of the ‘enraged’ villagers and how Savitribai stepped in. This intervention saves the lives of the lovers and she sends them away to the safety and caring support of her husband, Jyotiba. With the malevolent reality of honour killings in the India of 2016 and the hate-driven propaganda around ‘love jehad’ this letter is ever so relevant today. 29 August 1868 Naigaon, Peta Khandala Satara The Embodiment of Truth, My Lord Jotiba, c salutes you! I received your letter. We are fine here. I will come by the fifth of next month. Do not worry on this count. Meanwhile, a strange thing happened here. The story goes like this. One Ganesh, a Brahman, would go around villages, performing religious rites and telling people their fortunes. This was his bread and butter. Ganesh and a teenage girl named Sharja who is from the Mahar (untouchable) community fell in love. She

Most of us are fairly familiar with the meaning of planning in our everyday life. We do often decide in advance about the things to be done on a busy working day. Parents make advance decisions on the education of their children. As students, you may think in advance how to go ahead with the preparation for your examination? How to make use of your time in the best possible manner and so on? Laymen understand planning as some systematic way of deciding about and doing things in a purposeful manner. However, in the context of formal organisations and their management, the concept of planning has a specific connotation. It means deciding in advance what is to be done in the future for a specific period and then taking the necessary steps to do the things decided upon. It means looking ahead into the future and trying to anticipate what is it likely to be, how will it affect the organisation, what direction the organisation should take, and how to cope with the future events? Planning als

  Though Savitribai is primarily known as an educator, but she worked tirelessly to uplift and empower women and save them from sexual exploitation. She fought against misogyny and patriarchy, and became an inspiration for a whole generation of women leaders who fought for gender justice in Maharashtra— Dr Anandi Bai, Gopal Joshi, Pandita Ramabai, Tarabai Shinde, Ramabai Ranade and many others. In 1863, Jyotirao and Savitribai also started a care center called ‘Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha,’ possibly the first ever infanticide prohibition home founded in India. It was set up so that pregnant Brahmin widows and rape victims can deliver their children in a safe and secure place thus preventing the killing of widows as well as reducing the rate of infanticide. In the mid-1800s, there was a case of a widow who was arrested for killing her child born outside a marital relationship that she may have been forced into. Savitribai had heard of this incident and several other similar ones- widows

Savitribai Phule was a first women social reformer in India. Those days dalits were not allowed to take water from public tanks & wells. Many times they used to remain thirsty. In 1868 Savitribai Phule & Jyotiba phule dug a well in their house and made open for people from every caste. It was a big challenge for upper caste society. But they took a daring step. Girls were forced to marry with old age men. After the death of her husband widows were not allowed to remarry. Their heads were shaven. Savitribai organized a strike of barbers to persuade them not to shave their heads. Particularly Brahmin women were sexually exploited by males. They were driven to commit suicide. Phule started shelter home in their own house by name Balhatya Pratibadhak Griha for Brahmin widows. For the awareness they put advertisement at pilgrimage places and all over the city. After releasing the problem of caste discrimination prevailing among women she started organizing meetings of women. She was

    Millions of modern humans ask themselves the same question every morning while looking in the mirror: Why am I so hairy? As a society, we spend millions of dollars per year on lip waxing, eyebrow threading, laser hair removal, and face and leg shaving, not to mention the cash we hand over to Supercuts or the neighborhood salon. But it turns out we are asking the wrong question—at least according to scientists who study human genetics and evolution. For them, the big mystery is why we are so hairless . Evolutionary theorists have put forth numerous hypotheses for why humans became the naked mole rats of the primate world. Did we adapt to semi-aquatic environments? Does bare skin help us sweat to keep cool while hunting during the heat of the day? Did losing our fur allow us to read each other's emotional responses such as fuming or blushing? Scientists aren't exactly sure, but biologists are beginning to understand th

Savitribai Phule was a first women social reformer in India. Those days dalits were not allowed to take water from public tanks & wells. Many times they used to remain thirsty. In 1868 Savitribai Phule & Jyotiba phule dug a well in their house and made open for people from every caste. It was a big challenge for upper caste society. But they took a daring step. Girls were forced to marry with old age men. After the death of her husband widows were not allowed to remarry. Their heads were shaven. Savitribai organized a strike of barbers to persuade them not to shave their heads. Particularly Brahmin women were sexually exploited by males. They were driven to commit suicide. Phule started shelter home in their own house by name Balhatya Pratibadhak Griha for Brahmin widows. For the awareness they put advertisement at pilgrimage places and all over the city. After releasing the problem of caste discrimination prevailing among women she started organizing meetings of women. She was

  Savitribai Phule was one of the crusaders of gender justice. Although she was at first illiterate, she began getting education after matrimony. She Passed fourth and third season examination from a school in 1846-47. Savitribai's passion for female education started by beginning a school with Sagunabai found Maharwada in 1847. Later, on 1st January 1848, Country's very first school for females was started for Bhide's wada in Savitribai and Pune was nominated as the very first head mistress of the school. She was appointed as a professor, at the moment when training of females was meant to be an unholy, unheard of thing, furthermore an affront too conventional honour. Savitribai was a first Indian woman who fought against oppression of women, dalits and religious minorities. She strongly believed that education can liberate women from the oppressive patriarchal structures. To make the people aware about her devoted work towards society Mountain Peak Publishers published a

Mahatma Phule had a vision of social justice through education. The initiatives of his towards bringing training for lower castes & females are important features of the struggle of his against Brahmanism. He's likewise recognized as the nineteenth century philosopher of Modern India. He emphasized the need of training for lower castes to be able to obtain social rights as well as the flexibility. When one conversation about the socio economic state of lower castes, it becomes crucial to discuss the literacy of Dalits. The socio economic ailments of Dalits will always be more intense. It's essential to achieve education as it's additionally the achievement attached to health, political participation, along with other signs of interpersonal development. Phule's political and social ideology was entirely groundbreaking suggesting strong involvement with societal transformation. The vision for a new and liberated society – free from ignorance, bigotry, deprivation, and

The letter was written in 1856, Savitribai speaks about the core issue: education and its transformative possibilities in a society where learning, had for centuries been the monopoly of the Brahmins; who, in turn, used this exclusive privilege to enclave, demoralize and oppress. Away at her parental home to recuperate from an illness, Savitri describes in the letter a conversation with her brother, who is uncomfortable with the couple’s radicalism. October 1856 The Embodiment of Truth, My Lord Jyotiba, Savitri salutes you! After so many vicissitudes, now it seems my health has been fully restored. My brother worked so hard and nursed me so well through my sickness. His service and devotion shows how loving he really is! I will come to Pune as soon as I get perfectly well. Please do not worry about me. I know my absence causes Fatima so much trouble but I am sure she will understand and won’t grumble.  As we were talking one day, my brother said, “You and your husband have rightly bee

 

 In 1877, there was a severe drought and a famine in Maharashtra. Savitribai wrote a letter to Jotirao on 20 April 1877 describing the famine. Otur, Junnar The Embodiment of Truth, My Lord Jotiba, Savitri salutes you! The year 1876 has gone, but the famine has not – it stays in the most horrendous form here. The people are dying. The animals are dying, falling on the ground. There is severe scarcity of food and no fodder for the animals. The people are forced to leave their villages. Some are selling their children, their young girls, and leaving the villages. Rivers, brooks and tanks have completely dried up – there is no water to drink. Trees are dying – there are no leaves on trees. The barren land is cracked everywhere. The sun is scorching– blistering. The people crying for food and water are falling on the ground to die. Some are eating poisonous fruits, and drinking their own urine to quench their thirst. They cry for food and drink, and then they die. Our Satyashodak volunteers

Ordinarily, the wedding of a junior member of the British royal family wouldn’t attract much global attention. But Lord Ivar Mountbatten’s did. That’s because Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, wed James Coyle in the summer of 2018 in what was heralded as the “first-ever” same-sex marriage in Britain’s royal family.       Fig.: King Edward II was known for his intensely close relationships with two men.   Photo by duncan1890/Getty Images Perhaps what makes it even more unusual is that Mountbatten’s ex-wife, Penny Mountbatten, gave her former husband away. Who says the royals aren’t a modern family? Though Mountbatten and Coyle’s ceremony was expected to be small, it’s much larger in significance . “It’s seen as the extended royal family giving a stamp of approval, in a sense, to same-sex marriage,” said Carolyn Harris, historian and author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. “This marriage gives this wider perception of the royal family encouraging ever

 

  The unique, 4,000-year-old wooden artefact was discovered last year at Järvensuo I, a site in southwest Finland that encompasses a stretch of peat and mud, according to an article published  in the journal Antiquity.  The 21-inch-long snake figurine was found roughly a foot and a half down in a peat layer at the site, lying alone on its side. Its features were carefully carved from a stick, and the artist took care to incorporate the sinuous curves of the branch to serpentine effect. In an interview with National Geographic, Satu Kavisto , an archaeologist at Finland’s University of Turku and a lead author of the paper, described how the discovery of the unassuming artefact “gave us all shivers.” “We were stunned,” she recalls. The researchers note that the wooden snake figurine is a unique find for Neolithic northern Europe. While snakes fashioned from wood, bone, amber, or clay have been occasionally found between the eastern Baltic and the Ural Mountains, they a

 The Prince and the Handmaid A prince, while engaged on a hunting excursion, espied a fair maiden, and by promises of gold induced her to accompany him. After a time she fell sick, and the prince had her tended by divers physicians. As, however, they all omitted to say, “God willing,1 we will cure her,” their treatment was of no avail. So the prince offered prayer, and in answer thereto a physician was sent from heaven. He at once condemned his predecessors’ view of the case, and by a very skilful diagnosis, discovered that the real cause of the maiden’s illness was her love for a certain goldsmith of Samarcand.  In accordance with the physician’s advice, the prince sent to Samarcand and fetched the goldsmith, and married him to the lovesick maiden, and for six months the pair lived together in the utmost harmony and happiness. At the end of that period the physician, by divine command, gave the goldsmith a poisonous draught, which caused his strength and beauty to decay, and he then

  The collection of “Kavya Phule” is the very first anthology of Savitribai’s poems, including 41 poetic compositions dealing with nature, social issues and teaching poems. It is reasonable to believe that she must have started penning them earlier, say when she was 20. Her poems are a diverse mix of the serious, the sensuous, the playful and the wishful. The woman that emerges is rational, modern, progressive, committed, confident and fun-loving. I have classified these descriptions into broad heads and tried to justify them by reproducing select verses from her work. The Revolutionary Verses from the Kavya Phule Selected verses from the following poems mirror Savitri’s understanding of the social realities of her time. She castigates the exploitation inherent in the system. Her language is direct, sharp and unsparing whether it raises the caste or gender question. And you yearn not for the same, You posses intellect but work not on the same, How then can you be called a human being?