Of Women, By Women They might be driven by the need to excel, carve out a niche for themselves or spurred on by the need to survive in a harsh world but each of these all-women enterprises is a story of remarkable will, writes Naveen S. Garewal THESE are no Amazonian women, nor do they draw their inspiration from Xena — the warrior princess. They are ordinary women, who have decided to make their own place in what was essentially a male preserve. What is fascinating is that many of these women can easily be mistaken for the homemaker next doors.

The all-women petrol pump in Sector 4, Chandigarh. — Photos by Pradeep Tiwari

Enter, smart GIZMOS
Androids are likely to finally make it into homes this year. Jimmy Lee Shreeve reports on the gadgets set to conquer the world
IF you don’t want to vacuum your house or serve drinks at a party, let your robots do it. If you want to listen to a jukebox full of music or browse the web on the move, the new generation of mobile phones will oblige.

New light on Beatles
NEARLY 500 previously unseen photographs of the legendary British rock band The Beatles, taken on the set of their 1965 movie Help!, have been discovered after 35 years in storage at the University of Dundee, Scotland.