7 Inspiring Indian Women Who Made Us All Proud

Saalumarada Thimmakka

Saalumarada Thimmakka is an Indian Environmentalist who planted and nurtured 384 banyan trees along the stretch of a highway. Every day she and her husband would carry heavy buckets for a back-breaking distance of 4 kilometers to water the trees. Her work has been recognized internationally and California based Thimmakka's Resources for Environmental Education is named after her. She sets a perfect example of turning adversity into opportunity, reports scoop whoop.

Nauroti

From a stone cutter in Puharu village to a sarpanch of Rajasthan’s Harmada gram panchayat, Narouti has waged an unrelenting battle for empowering the marginalized. She has been an active member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan from 1981 and participated in the right to information campaign in Rajasthan. It is this campaign that laid the foundation for the Right to Information (RTI) Act passed by the Union government in 2005.

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