Inspiring Stories of Women by SPARROW
Listen to inspiring stories of women, whose lives are a testament to what a dream, fuelled by will, can do. Written and presented by Sound & Picture Archives for Research On Women (SPARROW). SPARROW is a non-profit committed to creating archives of oral history and visual material connected with women's lives and experiences which have remained hidden in the crevices of history, keeping their history alive through various media. It believes that positive change is possible only when we understand women’s lives, history and struggles for self-respect and human dignity. Voiced by Shruti Bhola and Shoa Hussain. Produced by OfSpin Media Friends. To learn more, you can visit: https://www.sparrowonline.org/ And to buy any of the complete inspiring titles by SPARROW in audio, you can make a payment of Rs. 100 per title, using this link: https://sparrowonline.org/payment/index.html Kindly email your contact number and name, as well as the particular audiobook that you’d like SPARROW to send you, to sparrow1988@gmail.com after making the payment.
Episodes
In order to reach Lanka, Rama began to build a bridge. A little squirrel wanted to contribute its mite to this effort. It began to jump into the water and then roll on the sand and then run to where the bridge was coming up to shed the sand. Amazed at this unusual activity, Rama asked the squirrel what it was up to. The squirrel replied that it was doing what it could, to help build the bridge.
There must be many who, like that squ...
It has been a long journey for Esther Victoria Abraham, known as Pramila, to the film world. From a girl who stood under the foyer clock of her Calcutta school - punished for giggling and playing pranks - to a Hindi cinema actor in Bombay, from marriage to a celebrated actor to becoming a producer in her own right, Pramila has travelled a long way. The journey of this venturesome, vivacious woman has been marked by many road maps, ...
A young girl in Karachi whose family did not allow her to study beyond the fourth standard; an eager girl who read all the papers especially for information on new discoveries in science and worried that there would be nothing left for her to discover if they did not let her study further; a twenty-two year old girl walking on the streets of Bombay with her brother after Partition, to find out if the city could give succour to her ...
As a little girl, Kanaka travelled in a bullock cart to the Somnathpur temple with visitors who came to her house. She would run around the stone figures in the temple; sometimes she would stand and wonder why she could not make such figures. In the village where she lived as a child, she waited for the servants to clean the front yard with cow dung paste, and over that dull green colour she would draw with white powder the rangoli...
A four-year-old girl met Menaka, a woman who had chosen to be a dancer against great odds. Menaka took this frail child under her wings and persuaded the little girl's widowed mother to allow the girl to be trained a dancer. Menaka became the mentor, guru and a second mother to the girl.
This little girl became the renowned Kathak dancer, Damayanti Joshi, who feels that her entire life and its meaning is contained in her dance. Eve...
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