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Sunday,
February 2, 2003
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WE got an overwhelming response
to The Tribune’s Woman of the Year Award. The readers responded
with enthusiasm, verve and a remarkable sense of involvement and wrote
about what inspired them about the women they were nominating. Kiran
Bedi emerged the undisputed winner in this poll, followed closely by
Ekta Kapoor.
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Opinion Poll
Woman of
the year 2002: What the readers say
- The Kiran of India
- A role model
- Her work speaks for her
- Honour the housewife!
- Learned sanyasin
- Heroine of the TV world
- Portraying essence of
womanhood
- Traditional and modern
- She braved poverty to
emerge a topper
- Dutt’s the spirit
- Madhuri Dixit: Fit ‘n’
hit
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- Storming a male bastion
- She braved bullets!
- Three S’s
- Taking up a challenge
- The woman of all seasons
- Unique distinction
- She needed no inducement
- Racing against all odds
- She made the country proud
- A ray of hope for AIDS
victims
- Sushma Swaraj
- A woman of substance
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For
all those who tread softly
M. K. Agarwal
THE
word ‘soft’, in common parlance, means a person, a thing, an act, or
an organisation, that is gentle, smooth, pleasant or pliant. Several
interesting features and aspects come to mind, some of which I wish to
share with the readers.
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Common people,
uncommon zeal
Illiterate
solar engineers who light up villages
Shruti Gupta
GULAB
Devi (45) of Harmara village in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district comes
across as the quintessential rural woman from Rajasthan. Dressed
in the traditional ghagra-choli (long skirt and blouse), Gulab is
the sole bread-earner for her four children and her ailing husband
who hasn’t had a job in the 24 years of their marriage.
In the spotlight
Season of thrills, chills & scare fare
BOLLYWOOD
thrives on the herd mentality — one trendsetter and a multitude of
followers. If some time back it was mushy romance and patriotism that
fired the imagination of filmmakers, it’s thrillers that are calling
the shots these days.
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