About the Book Woman worldwide does most of the unpaid sustenance work at home, besides the paid work outside. Rural woman is the most affected by this type of gender inequality. However, the urban Indian woman 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 marry into a family, where she all too often becomes victim of domestic violence. The author feels that urban Indian woman 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 She wanted to study her favorite subjects Music and Dance. Her father wanted her to become an IAS officer. Later he made her apply for an Indo-German Academic Exchange Scholarship. As a bright student of Pure 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 and Women's Issues are sidelined. As a Green Feminist City Councillor in Bonn, she ultimately recognized the importance of living in India rather than in the West. 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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