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Nurturing Hope, Radiating Light | From Behind the Pen

Like a tree of life
become someone’s hope today
radiate your light.

© Kym Gordon Moore

In the darkest of situations and in the depths of places drenched in darkness, stay hopeful and kick your light up a notch. With courage, compassion, and strength, turn someone’s hopelessness into a bowl full of hope.

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First Female Teacher of India – Kaushal Kishore

 

Savitribai Phule, acknowledged as India’s first female educator and a trailblazer, defied societal norms in her pursuit of women’s education, equality, and justice. Her life epitomised the unyielding spirit of women’s empowerment.

Today, on her 193rd birth anniversary, while paying homage to her, I share some important anchors of her inspiring life.

Born on January 3, 1831, in Maharashtra’s Naigaon village, Savitribai Phule, a Dalit woman from the Mali community, faced an early marriage at the age of 10. However, her husband Jyotirao Phule, who was 13, supported her education. Jyotirao educated her at home and later enrolled her in a teachers’ training institution in Pune, paving the way for her to become a teacher for girls…

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