“I am the chairperson of my company,” said Savitri Gaur to loud applause from the large Delhi audience gathered to celebrate the Civil Society Hall of Fame.
Weeks earlier we had visited her in Bundi, Rajasthan, where, standing in a warehouse, cell phone clutched in her hand, she said to us: “We were selling on adverse terms and buying from the market at a premium. So we thought to ourselves, why not set up our own company and save on the margins that traders and shopkeepers make.”
Empowerment of Bundi’s women farmers began with. . .
