It has been 75 years since India adopted and accepted its Constitution, marking a historic milestone in its journey as an ...

Each of these founding mothers of the Constitution represents a unique facet of India's struggle for independence ...

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...

They took on prominent roles in the newly independent democratic country. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit scaled heights in diplomacy. Amrit Kaur was the first woman to be a Union minister. As health ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Sucheta Kripalani, Purnima Banerji, Begum Aizaz Rasul and Kamla Chaudhry were from the United Provinces. Banerji was a steadfast communist and trade union leader.

FILE - U.S. President Harry Truman, from left, poses with Mary McLeod Bethune, retiring founder-president of the National Council of Negro Women, Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Ambassador of India ...

We also see her battling other personal battles. She’s shown to have a troubled relationship with her paternal aunt, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and later shown to be an overindulgent mother to her ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine ...

The film, that opens with a disclaimer of ‘creative liberty’, opens in Indira’s childhood where she bristles at her aunt Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s (quite an illustrious figure in her own ...