“In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!” BelieveI CanDoneBigsGirlFootballIndiaWaveLondonArticlesWowBendingPlaying FootballBeckham Author:Parminder Nagra
“Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.” CountryGirlBabyMonthsSixFemaleIndiaShameMinistersPrimeTraveledShockingPrime MinisterSix MonthsSystematicEliminationBaby GirlFetus Author:Elizabeth Vargas
“It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.” YearsGirlMillionsIndiaDisappear Author:Elizabeth Vargas
“Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.” FeelsChildrenStillsMatterFacesGirlThreeSexTalkingBoysIssuesAbuseIndiaUncomfortableFiftyChild AbuseCentsHomosexualityCarpetHypocriteBoy And Girl Author:Rahul Bose
“Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.” TwoBigsGirlBitsCitiesWeekAdventureSixIndiaShootingHopsExploringTwo WeeksHindiMumbaiCheetahsAmazing PlacesRickshaw Author:Michael Steger
“We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.” WorldChildrenDoneSchoolGirlSocialEducationEnvironmentMediaMonthsIndiaInstitutionsRemainsSatisfactionHeatVillageReach OutJuneTemperatureRequestJoyousIlliterateGood EducationSocial InstitutionsSocial GoodScorchingGirl Child Author:Narendra Modi
“Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.” ChildrenGirlTreeBirthEmpowermentIndiaCelebrateVillageGirl Child Author:Narendra Modi
“Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.” ShouldHeartCountrySchoolGirlBirthShould HaveIndiaInnovationCleanCampaignsClosestToiletsCleanlinessSanitationGandhiji Author:Narendra Modi
“It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].” TwoUseWantedGirlLanguageVoiceEmotionalIndiaVersions Author:A. R. Rahman
“I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.” PeopleShouldCountrySchoolGirlSocialResponsibilityPlansStudentsIndiaCleanEvolveCorporateSocial ResponsibilityToiletsForeign CountriesCorporate Social Responsibility Author:Narendra Modi
“Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.” PeopleIfsMenShouldMayHas BeensSaidYoungGirlSexAnswersWifeDependsBeatsPercentIndiaAskingMajorityPakistanResearchersWhere You LiveIndia And PakistanWife Beating Author:Steve Inskeep
“In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.” WorldGirlSexAttitudeBoysIndiaPopulationChinaDiscriminationSelectionKoreaBoy And GirlImbalanceBoy GirlSex Discrimination Author:Michael Sandel
“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.” ThinkingYoungGirlLosesModernExampleBuiltIndiaStructureExclusionAmerican SocietyScientific Knowledge Author:Vandana Shiva
“[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.” FirstsSaidGirlPresidentClassOughtIndiaOppressionPurityEpitomeUntouchablesBenedictionClass System Author:Indira Gandhi
“One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.” ThinkingWayWellsSaidStillsGirlStudySpecialMetsOne DayMarriedIndiaTwentiesAskingLondonIndianTwenty OneSari Author:Indira Gandhi
“Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.” IfsWayChildrenWantedGirlFightingFatherDecisionInvolvedHusbandConsequenceConcernIndiaAngryBritishMy HusbandDevotedMonkeys Author:Indira Gandhi
“Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.” StillsGirlAirSonMarriedIndiaDesignerItalianPilotsAutomobileBachelorsItalian Girl Author:Oriana Fallaci
“I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.” ThinkingGivingSaidSometimesMotherGirlMarriedIndiaGive MeBrides Author:Arundhati Roy
“In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of pain, respect, and saying you are great, etc., but not providing the basic facilities that make women able to lead the kind of life that they would like to and that men easily do.” ThinkingMenKindHas BeensAblePainGirlCenturySpeechWorshipIndiaEtcProvidingDocumentsFacilityWisest Author:Amartya Sen
“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.” MadeSchoolGirlParentTermPercentAreasFemaleIndiaRateRegionsLowestLiteracyCompulsoryFemale Education Author:Amartya Sen
“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.” WellsChildrenCountryGirlMillionsEconomicDevelopmentLowsNegativeIndiaImpactWell BeingLiteracyIlliterateEconomic DevelopmentLack Of Education Author:Sachin Tendulkar
“Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.” IfsThinkingShouldMindWholeGirlBoysMissingTaughtLessonsIndiaShootingTargetBoy And Girl Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?” TryingBookKidsLawGirlHolyIndiaCompetitionPostsPakistanBlasphemyMorbidHoly BooksTry Me Author:Kabir Bedi
“India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.” PeopleFeelsHomeCareAgeMotherGirlSexParentBoysFiveSacrificeSonDaughterIndiaTake CareOld AgeWombRatiosDisparity Author:Narendra Modi
“No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentBeautifulGirlSpeakPerfectBeautySpecialIndiaAssumingInternationalEducatedQueensPlatformsBeauty QueenEveryone Is Different Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
“If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.” IfsHelpingGirlEffectsAwarenessGainsIndiaAimVariousCampaignsEducatedRisingAddressesPlatformsInitiativeInnovativeTangible Author:Priyanka Chopra