They dare to be different: women in male-dominated professions

These city women have cut a trail-blazing path through professions usually dominated by men. And they’ve done it with panache  

‘Nothing is impossible’

Motivated by her father, Sheraton Hotel New Delhi’s Sous Chef Aditi Chatterjee is constantly learning and does not believe in resting on her laurels What or who inspired you to become a chef? My father has been an inspiration for me ever since I understood the art of cooking. Sitting on the kitchen platform on a […]

‘I love the challenges’: Chef Nandita Karan

The LaLit New Delhi’s Executive Chef Nandita Karan says passion for your work can help overcome all challenges  What motivated you to enter the world of professional cooking, despite the challenges? One of the biggest reasons for me to take up a career as a chef is my passion and love for food. Cooking is […]

Empowered women to be awarded

The 2022 theme is #BreakTheBias with the aim to forge a gender equal world

She came, she played, she won

India’s sporting landscape is changing. The 15 Olympic medals won in the last century were all claimed by men. Then came Karnam Malleswari, the weightlifter who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A glass ceiling was broken.

A tryst with queerness: womanhood and queerness in the capital

Three years after Section 377 was struck down by the Supreme Court, queer women in Delhi still find it difficult to live and love freely without compromising their womanhood

Passes sold out overnight as Delhi zoo welcomes back visitors on first day

Earlier, the zoo had reopened for visitors on August 1, more than two months after it was shut due to a rise in the number of Covid cases during the second wave of the pandemic. The zoo was closed for the public on January 4 and the online ticket booking link on its website was […]

Delhi Anganwadi protests: Delhi Government responds to the grievances

The Delhi government is paying the country’s highest amount of honorarium and allowances to Anganwadi workers and helpers in the city, sources in the government claimed on Sunday. The Anganwadi workers are paid monthly Rs 12,720 in Delhi while Rs 12,200 is the pay in Tamil Nadu, Rs 11,811 in Haryana, Rs 10,500 in Telangana, […]