This section is dedicated to women. Women from Pondicherry, women living and working in Pondicherry, we meet them and would like to share with you their words, their faces, their actions.
| 05 April 2009
Prasanna is a painter, 38 years old and radiant with joy. Since the beginning of 2009, she has been running her gallery-studio at 61 Vysial Street in Pondicherry. Born at Kottayam in Kerala, in a religious but non orthodox family, open-minded and interested in art and literature from an early age.Her dream came true after a few months of searching to find a floodlighted place which is also silent and beautiful.
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| 11 March 2009
You can meet her every day, smiling, on Annanda Rangapillai Street (facing the Post Office), in front of her enormous coconut stock. With an extreme kindness, she accepts to meet us to speak about her life. Her name is Malar and she naturally took the place her mother Mouctoulaksmi was occupying since the 50’s.| 07 March 2009
Womens status in India is extremely difficult, with much more suffering in villages than in cities. Generally women are expected to be quiet and dependent on their husbands.
| 05 March 2009
Today, we are meeting Madeleine de Blic, who has a long involvement and dedication to poverty elimination activities in India. A woman with an increadible amount of humility and kindness, she arrived in india in 1962 from Belgium.