THE FEARLESS WIND

Women Empowerment is increasing in India and its a good news for a family to have a Girl Child. There are lots many women who prove themselves that they can fulfil their Dreams. According to spiritual science we are soul, we should never consider ourselves as being a girl we are weak, in our past birth we might be a man but in this birth we are women. Only body changes but soul remains the same. This should be set on the mindset of Indian people that everyone can become successful, doesn’t matter whether its a Man or a Women. This days Govt started giving opportunity to Women , even the start-up India has made separate project for Women Entrepreneur, society is changing day by day so its good news that they are giving importance to their daughter also. But there are many Powerful Women although they succeeded what they wanted but are not that known by Everyone on this Globe. I will discuss such kind of Women because they are a source of Inspiration and their work should be appreciated and will also discuss about the Famous one too. I will explain how Women in their particular field were able to achieve their Dreams, it might be Sports, Business, Arts, Singing, Acting etc. .Here goes the Fearless Women –

1.Priyanka Chopra : PC who is also my inspiration and has accomplished a lot in her acting career, she was the winner of Miss India and Miss World in 2000. When she started her career, Directors said “She can’t work it out” but after 13-15 years of Experience she became Inspiration for women.  She opted both easy and difficult role in Bollywood. Her versatility is extraordinary. Now, She perform in Global platform. She was in TIME MAGAZINE and She was the first Indian ambassador for the world-wide famous brand Guess. She host the “OSCAR  AWARD”  By becoming the first Indian actress to bag a lead role in an American TV series called ‘Quantico’. She was given the title as India’s Most Powerful Women in FEMINA Magazine.

Her most Inspiring words :

-Take risk and Life will Reward You

-Never let anyone take you for granted in a relationship.

-Live for Yourself and not to please for everyone around you.

2.Meena Bindra : Founder of India’s largest readymade ethnic wear brand BIBA. She grew up in Delhi but lost her father at young age. She loves her hobby of designing clothes which ultimately led to a Brand. She married to a naval officer as a result of which she moved across India. As her focus is on creativity so with initial investment she started garments design on her leisure time. Her most inspirational words are “I enjoy my work and Each garment is a work of art and I never work under pressure.”

3.Patricia Narayan : A proud winner of “[Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry] “FICCI Woman Entrepreneur Award” (2010); after successfully fighting all the odds of failed marriage, addict husband, and taking care of two kids, lives in a well-furnished duplex apartment in Velachery with a shining luxury car parked outside the door.

She got into a Love marriage at the age of 19, but her husband turned out to be abusive alcoholic. Though she was a college drop out, she tapped her skills as a cook to become a caterer in Chennai. She got contracts from Government offices in and around the city. She says “once you start liking your work you don’t easily feel tired”. Patricia grew from 50 paisa a day to an average of Rs. 2 lakh, daily.

Life Lessons

-Always stick to what you know.

-Believe in yourself and the product you are making.

-Never compromise on quality.

-Never lose your self-confidence.

-You should know what you ask your employee to do.

-Struggle makes you even more mature to retain the success for a long time.

-Success isn’t a status or possession that stays with you for lifetime, or a permanent stoppage of an accomplishment, it is rather a constant journey where you have to maintain your consistency.

-Pain is an inevitable part of life and it shouldn’t stop us from moving forward as – ‘moving is life’ and ‘still is dead’.

-To be a successful entrepreneur, you don’t have to be highly educated (as degree doesn’t always ensure success)

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4.Binapani Talukdar : Founder of Assam Handicraft trade “PANSY EXPORTS”, she herself use to make decorative handicrafts, then started garment design. She was born and raised in Guwahati ,Assam. She started Art and craft school which shut down later because of pressure from her husband to focus more on kids. But she carried on with handicrafts export company, learning the skills of quality standards and international pricing  for clients in countries such as South Africa and Brazil.

Life Lesson :

-Be where you are in that present moment.

-Be all that you can be and more.

5.Dipali Sikand : Founder of Les Concierges, grew up in Kolkata. In her early years, she worked at a travel agency. She was also active in politics but moved into HR. Her marriage unfortunately fell apart and she was left with a baby with no financial resources. She raised both young baby and young Business with passion and determination. Customers such as Wipro and IBM paid well for the services.

Life Lesson:

-Be passionate about what you do. And don’t be driven by money alone.

6.Neerja Bhanot : She was one of the bravest Senior Flight purser for PAN Am but was killed while saving passengers from heavily armed terrorist on board the hijacked Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport on 5^th September 1986. The Govt of India posthumously awarded her “The Ashoka Chakra Award”.  She had an arrange marriage but the marriage proved to be disaster as being abused by her husband for dowry. So, she was separated and focused her efforts on building her career for herself. She also undertook some modelling assignments and appeared in many TV ads. A movie “Neerja”  was made on her biography where Sonam Kapoor  is the Lead Role.

7.Mary Kom : Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, better known as Mary Kom  is an Indian Boxer. She has taken the Indian Boxing from an existence of obscurity to the world podium. She was born and raised in a small village of Manipur of NE states India. She won 6 Gold Medals at the World Amateur Boxing Championship and won Gold at 2003 Asian Games. She won Witch Cup in the year 2002. Kom is a woman of substance who proved that everything is possible if you set your Heart, Body, Mind and Soul into Your Dream.

Mary Kom got married early in 2005 to her lifelong friend and had twins in 2007, which critics thought were the end of her career. But she close to show public what a woman sports person was capable of. Kom’s autobiography was given the title as “Unbreakable” which was published in 2013 by Harper Collins.

Her work was appreciated and in 2014, a biopic of Kom’s Life released in the name “Mary Kom” with Priyanka Chopra playing as the Lead Role .

8. Rashmi Bansal : She is the author of 7 best seller books on Entrepreneurship – “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish” and “Connect the Dots” were sold over million of copies and has been translated into 10 languages. Rashmi completed her education from IIM-A in 1991, after which she joined Bennett Coleman and Co. as a management trainee in 1993.  She turned into a prolific writer when she started her college in IIM-A, and it happen to get published in some leading newspaper and magazines. Rashmi launched highly successful youth page “Indy”.

During her stint with “Times of India”, she started youth page “The Independent” which gave her brilliant Idea – “why just a page, when you can dedicate a whole Magazine to youth”?. Thus, she launched JAM in 1995 which means “Just Another Magazine”

She took drastic step at very young age of 24, coming from surrounding where all her childhood friends went to IIT or did PhD from abroad, made her father go completely against the idea made by him believe that she had chosen the wrong path which would lead to losing out on stability and security. She was adamant about what step she has taken and decided to stick to her decision.

In a matter of 10 years, she brought JAM to a scale where it is now become India’s largest youth magazine. She believed that JAM will keep closely connected with youth, their hopes, dream’s and could easily understand their needs or desires.

Rashmi’s third entrepreneurial stint came in after she transformed herself into successful Author and decided to transform Authorship into entrepreneurship by launching

“Bloody Good Book ! “ in 2014.

Rashmi Bansal is now a Published Author, a widely followed Motivational Speaker and Highly successful Entrepreneur !

9. Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad : Lijjat papad is a highly popular brand in India. Most of us might remember the buck toothed bunny that appeared in TV commercials, but many are not aware of the fact that it’s power of rural women and their self-empowerment initiative which made the brand possible. Lijjat papad was started with a modest loan of Rs80 and now its exceeding Rs301 crore.

The most interesting lesson from Lijjat papad is sticking to its core values for past 10 years. Lijjat ensured that every process runs smoothly, Members earn a comfortable profit, Agents get their due share, Consumers gets the assurance of quality at a good price and Society benefits from its donations to various causes.

Jyoti Naik is the President of “Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad”, and the entire cycle starts with simple recruitment process. Any women who pledges to adopt the institution values and who respect the quality becomes the member and co-owner of organization.  Their main motive is women who want to involved in rolling of the papads need to have clean house and space to dry the papads. Those who do not have that facility can take other responsibilities.

10. Kalpana Saroj : She is an Indian Women Entrepreneur born in Roperkheda village in Maharashtra, India. A Dalit by birth and attempted suicide at a tender age. She was married by her parents at  the age of 12, and was physically abused y her husband’s family, but was rescued by her father. She had a tailoring business, then furniture store eventually joining the league of successful women entrepreneurs.

She also started an NGO where they aggregated and distributed knowledge about various Govt. loans and schemes available to people like her. She did not want that the future child, boy or girl, go through what had happened with her. She wanted them to know that everyone of us can do wonderful things with their Life provided they follow their Goals and Dreams.

The Nation honoured this amazing women with Padma Shri Award.

Life Lesson :

Hard work is not overrated. It is fail proof, what you want – whatever it is – you shall get if  you apply wholeheartedly and work towards it with single minded vision.

These are brief vignettes of few Powerful Women, Hope you like their Stories, I will try to do more research on Powerful Women who really deserve the appreciation and they should be known by people across the globe.

Thanks to my brother Ambar Chatterjee for suggesting me for the Title “The Fearless Wind”.

Stay Inspired and Prove Yourself that you can do it..!!!!