Women world wide does most of the unpaid substance work at home, besides the paid work outside. Rural women is the most affected by this type of gender inequality. However, the urban Indian women is in a much better situation today. Being both educationally and economically privileged, she can be self-sufficient. But because she is often not able to find a suitable partner, she is either living single or has to many into a family, where she all too often becomes victim of domestic violence. The author feels that urban Indian women today can and should defy the patriarchal structures and live an autonomous life. This book shows how an alternative lifestyle, a so-called organic agricultural lifestyle can provide her an alternative, in which she can live a dignified life, receive immense love and respect from the rural folk as well as contribute towards the much neglected rural development of India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Asha Kachru
She wanted to study her favorite subjects Music and Dance. Her She wanted to study her favorite subjects Music and Dance. Her father wanted her to become an IAS officer. Later he made her made apply for an Indo-German Academic Exchange Scholarship. As a bright student of Pune Mathematics from the University of Delhi, She soon was a member of a team of scholars at the University of Bonn in Germany. She worked as a Scientific Officer at the German national Informatics Centre. However she got more and more involved in the Socio-Cultural and Political dimensions of New technologies. The dominant understanding of development is based on Western technologies. Third World an Women’s Issues are sidelined. As a Green feminist City Councillor in Bonn, She quit her job and returned along with her young son to India. After traveling in South India, visiting the NGO sector, the author has settled down in Kohir in Medak District of Andhra Pradesh, where she has been working and living an alternative Organic Agricultural Lifestyle.
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