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Dear Plant-lovers, We are extremely happy to bring to you the special issue of Indian Botanists on the eve of International Women’s Day. We take this opportunity to highlight some of the most significant contributions of Indian women botanists. Gender issues are prevalent in science and India is no exception. For instance, women scientists are…
P.K. Mishra Department of Botany Vinoba Bhave University Hazaribag-825319, Jharkhand, India E mail: malay_mishra@yahoo.com Introduction Women have been custodian of plant genetic diversity from time immemorial. They have adequate knowledge regarding importance of plants as food, medicine, clothing and raw materials for various house-hold purposes. Plants are the backbones of religious events and rituals. Obviously…
Deepika Sharma BSc(Hons) Botany, 2nd Year University Of Delhi Email: deepikajpsharma7@gmail.com “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf Until I started writing this article, I didn’t know that patriarchy was so deeply rooted in our society that it didn’t even spare academics. There are women who faced it closely. These were women who…
Dr KBRS Visarada and HS Gawali Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030, India On the occasion of International women’s day 2015, it is a great honor to recall the services of Dr Pankaja Reddy R. towards Indian dry-land agriculture system. Dr. R. Pankaja Reddy Dr Reddy was born to Shri R Jagannath Reddy and…
Suresh Narayana Pathiki*, Pullaiah Thammineni**, Varalakshmi Dharani*** *Principal (Retired), S. S. B. N. Junior College **Professor of Botany (Retried), S. K. University ***Lecturer (Retired), Government Degree College Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India Archana Sharma Archana Sharma, an Indian Woman Botanist, a renowned Cytogeneticist, Cell biologist and a cytotoxicologist, a founding editor of The Nucleus, an international journal of…
Dr. Ichha Purak University Professor (Retd.) Department of Botany Ranchi Women’s College, Ranchi Jharkhand, India “Women empowerment is the strong foundation of a peace loving calm society which is prospective” India is one of the fastest growing countries in terms of the population and the economics. It is no doubt a developing country in many…
Ritesh Kumar Senior Research Fellow, NICRA (Mango) Project ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region Research Centre, Plandu, Ranchi-834010 Jharkhand, India Historically, women have always lagged behind that of men in education and it is pretty well documented. Science and technology have always been considered ‘masculine’ for a long time. The social norms, societal structure, relationship…