Unwilling to Bend - True Stories of Courageous and Determined Women

Informationen zum Autor Priya Somaiya , Executive Director, USHA Social Services (USS), is one of India's leading organisation development (OD) and human resource (HR) consultants. In the course of a career spanning more than three decades, Dr Somaiya has assayed several roles, including that of an OD and HR consultant, a mentor, an executive coach to senior leadership (CXO level), a change interventionist and a thought leader in the social development space. She has played a pivotal role in co-creating and advancing the community development vision and mission of a leading corporate firm in India. She has enabled leading business organisations-Hindustan Unilever, Sanofi India, ACC, Tata Group, ONGC and Hindustan Times -to handle intricate organisational complexities through various initiatives such as succession planning, senior leadership team development, potential and talent assessment and coaching and mentoring. In her current role in USS and USHA Consulting Services (UCS), she provides strategic leadership to community development and consulting practice areas within Usha International Limited. She spearheads community development initiatives in areas of entrepreneurship for rural women (spread across SAARC nations) and rural integrated development through non-formal education, the arrest of distress migration and poverty alleviation. Under her leadership, Silai schools have grown to become a national movement aimed at women's empowerment.Dr Somaiya holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from Allahabad University, India. Klappentext The phoenix can only rise if there is a large and credible purpose. In this filigree of enchanting stories Priya Somaiya effortlessly crafts the lives and experiences of a few women, revealing the interwoven complexity of emotions and astounding actions that could shift many mental and emotional paradigms-Sahiba undergoes a massive identity transformation and confronts undefinable tragedy with quiet courage; the determined Shakun cannot be appreciated by people who perceive the world largely through class, caste and gender biases; how can women like Fatima and Ramoli challenge the entrenched norms governing women in feudal structures; Shailaja doesn't realise that the universe does partner in fulfilling strong aspirations in the most mysterious ways; when a girl child is thrown on a railway platform after she is born and grows up on the same platform, what does it mean to just breathe and survive; widowhood in India is still neither here nor there and if Pushpa could weather the worst storm of widowhood she can just sail through others; Asma changes her name to redefine her identity and feels empowered to alter her life.These are stories of faith and humanity. It takes brazen guts and conviction in the goodness of human nature to believe that attitudinal positivity can turn around one's life. Rare and life-changing, Unwilling to Bend posits that courage is the most beautiful colour of the mind. Zusammenfassung The phoenix can only rise if there is a large and credible purpose. In this filigree of enchanting stories Priya Somaiya effortlessly crafts the lives and experiences of a few women, revealing the interwoven complexity of emotions and astounding actions that could shift many mental and emotional paradigms-Sahiba undergoes a massive identity transformation and confronts undefinable tragedy with quiet courage; the determined Shakun cannot be appreciated by people who perceive the world largely through class, caste and gender biases; how can women like Fatima and Ramoli challenge the entrenched norms governing women in feudal structures; Shailaja doesn't realise that the universe does partner in fulfilling strong aspirations in the most mysterious ways; when a girl child is thrown on a railway platform after she is born and grows up on the same platform, what does it mean to just breathe and survive; widowhood in In...

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• Autori: Priya Somaiya
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.06.2019
• EAN: 9789388414791
• ISBN: 978-93-88414-79-1
• Pagine: 278
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Society & social sciences, Society & culture: general, India, Social classes, Gender studies: women and girls, Corruption in society, Social discrimination and social justice