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Sonali Tripathy is the Chief Business Officer – Women’s Health at Embryyo, a medical devices solutions company. Earlier to her stint as an entrepreneur, she has gathered five plus years of experience in the healthcare industry at some of the esteemed organisations such as GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare and Stryker.
A graduate from IIT Bombay, she is ever inquisitive and a medical technology enthusiast. Technology interventions to address challenges of healthcare accessibility & affordability in low and middle income countries, are her keen areas of interest. To excel in impact creation through her role at Embryyo, she took upon an Impact Business Leadership (IBL) course at Indian School of Business (ISB), which in her opinion has been instrumental in deeply understanding impact investments and ventures worldwide.
At Embryyo, leading the Women’s Health vertical through the flagship product CerviScope, an assistive cervical cancer screening tool for the community, she succeeded in placing the team as one of the top ten winners at “Intel DST Innovate for Digital India Challenge”, attaining an accelerator program at CIIE (Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship), IIM Ahmedabad in collaboration with Lester Center of Entrepreneurship at Haas Business School, University of California Berkeley. She was awarded with an opportunity to visit our honorary President’s house to share Embryyo’s solution around cervical cancer, well aligned to Digital India vision of healthcare accessibility.
She has also been titled as top 6 women Entrepreneur at Women Entrepreneurship Quest ‘2015. She is delighted to be a part of the Women’s Web Network.
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People say that women are the greatest enemies of women. I vehemently disagree. It is the patriarchal mindset that makes women believe in the wrong ideology.
The entire world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, 2024. It should be a joyful day, but unfortunately, not all women are entitled to this privilege, as violence against women is at its peak. The experience of oppression pushes many women to choose freedom. As far as patriotism is concerned, feminism is not a cup of tea in this society.
What happens when a woman decides to stand up for herself? Does this world easily accept the decisions of women in this society? What inspires them to be free of the clutches of the oppression that women have faced for ages? Most of the time, women do not get the chance to decide for themselves. Their lives are always at the mercy of someone, which can be their parents, siblings, husband, or children.
In some cases, women do not feel the need to make any decisions. They are taught to obey the patriarchal system, which makes them believe that they are right. In my family, I was never taught to make decisions on my own. It was always my parents who bought dresses and all that I needed.
14 years after her last feature film Dhobi Ghat, storyteller extraordinaire comes up with her new film, Laapataa Ladies, a must watch.
*Some spoilers alert*
Every religion around the world dictates terms to women. The onus is always on women to be ‘modest’ and cover their faces and bodies so men can’t be “tempted”, rather than on men to keep their eyes where they belong and behave like civilized beings. So much so that even rape has been excused on the grounds of women eating chowmein or ‘men will be men’. I think the best Hindi movie retort to this unwanted advice on ‘akeli ladki khuli tijori ki tarah hoti hai’ (an alone woman is like an open jewellery box) came from Geet in Jab We Met – Kya aap gyan dene ke paise lete hain kyonki chillar nahin hain mere paas.
The premise of Laapataa Ladies is beautifully simple – two brides clad in the ghunghat that covers their identity get mixed up on a train. Within this Russian Doll, you get a comedy of errors, a story of getting lost, a commentary on patriarchy’s attitude towards women, a mystery, and a tale of finding oneself, all in one. Done with a mostly light touch that has you laughing and nodding along.
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