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Amrita Patel, chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board has given the dairy industry in India a commendable boost.
Amrita Patel - Chairperson of NDDB
Giving women half her age a run for their money, this sexagenarian is a bundle of energy and intelligence. She took it under herself to duly implement Operation Flood that financed and promoted the national cooperative dairy structure in the country, thus providing financial and materialistic aid to a number of small scale, village level operatives and small farmers.
A visionary, she helped concoct and lay the Foundation for Ecological Security, an organization dedicated to restore ecological processes in order to improve the biological productivity of the once-fertile land.
Amrita Patel has received a lot of critical acclaim and was awarded with the Padma Bhushan for her contribution to animal husbandry. She also received the Dr. Norman Borlaug Award for contribution in the field of dairy development as well as the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar award. She was named the International Person of the Year in 1997 by the World Dairy Expo. Inc.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For taking up a cause that even the Government did not pay much attention to
– For being a strong woman who believes in living life on her own terms
Suggested Reading:
http://www.changemakers.com/users/amrita-patel
*Photo credit: Outlook.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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