Shakuntala in Kalidasa & Mahabharata - Prof Romila Thapar

-  Shakuntala in Kalidasa & Mahabharata - Part 11

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIg5HXUudNM

Why do women defend Walcott? by Katy Evans-Bush

However brilliant a poet Derek Walcott is, as a teacher he saw his female students in terms of their sex, not their brains

Giving women a voice in literature by Melissa Evans

What do you want to be when you grow up? I was quick to raise my hand many years ago at a high school career day event: A novelist.

And I expected this career to be mine immediately upon graduation, because, why not? I was humble about it; I probably wouldn’t make the top 10 of any best-seller lists right away. So in college, I started writing for the school paper, figuring a bit of practice couldn’t hurt.

She ruled Egypt long before Cleopatra by ROBBY BERMAN

Her name was Hatshepsut.

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She was the first woman to become a pharaoh.

As Kate Narev of TED-Ed explains in the video at the end of this post, other women had ruled as powerful queens, but she was the first to actually be the pharaoh.

जीवन बीता चम्मच चम्मच (Jeevan beeta chammach chammach by Mamta Kalia)

पढ़ा लिखा कुछ काम न आया 
जीवन बीता चम्मच चम्मच 
सोच विचार विमर्श त्याग कर 
जीवन रीता चम्मच चम्मच

बालम ने बहकाया हमको 
चूल्हे ने दहकाया हमको 
निभी नौकरी लश्टम पश्टम 
समय सारिणी भारी भरकम 
खड़ी कतारें कर्तव्यों की 
सुख और हक़ के लट्टू मद्धम 
कब हम जीते कब हम हारे 
कौन हिसाब रखे सरपंचम 

अब हमने सिर तान लिया है 
मन में निश्चय ठान लिया है 
अपनी मर्ज़ी आप जियेंगे 
जीवन की रसधार पियेंगे 
कलश उठाकर, ओक लगाकर 
नहीं चाहिए हमें कृपाएँ 
करछुल करछुल चम्मच चम्मच l 



कवयित्री - ममता कालिया 
किताब - ममता कालिया : पचास कविताएँ, नयी सदी के लिए चयन  प्रकाशक - वाणी प्रकाशन, दिल्ली, 2012