NGO

Forty-seven-year-old Kasturi Chandrasekaran is not your conventional “working woman”. Hailing from the suburbs of Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu, she stepped out of her house for the first time in 1995 at the age of 33, in order to ensure savings for the family of eight. For someone who has just finished class eight for an education, she has moved on from self help groups (SHGs) to the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC. Padmalatha Ravi finds out the secret behind her success.

Divya Sharma writes about "Jagruti" an NGO working to empower rural women in northern Karnataka