Release of Centre for Women’s Development Studies’ 2018 calendar Women at the Midnight Hour

Based on rare archival photographs, the calendar focuses on two women members of the Constituent Assembly, Dakshayani Velayudhan and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Release of the calendar by Meera Velayudhan, daughter of Dakshayani Velayudhan and Manjari Mehta, granddaughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Recollection of the Midnight Hour, August, 14-15, 1947 

Speakers:  Aparna Basu and Sharada Nayak,will speak briefly of their recollections of the Midnight Hour,  August 14-15, 1947

 

Importance of Women in the National Movement

Speaker: Subhashini Ali, granddaughter of  Ammu Swaminathan, another member of the Constituent Assembly

 

(Centre for Women’s Development Studies)