Take a look at five queens who have been misinterpreted and painted in different shades of the wrong colours for being women in power. 

Maya Angelou once said that each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for the entire womankind. This thought is very astutely reflected in the life of Shareefa Hamid Ali and her activism. But like most other women, her name too has been erased from Indian history and social science textbooks. She […]

Because of her exemplary social service, she became the rare brothel owner whose statue was erected in Kamathipura and was known as the Mafia Queen of Mumbai and the Queen of Kamathipura.

Gangubai used her influence to champion the rights of sex workers and affirmed that their job didn’t authorise anyone to violate them.

When Mary Poonen Lukose returned to India in 1916, she took up the post of an obstetrician at the Women and Children Hospital, Thycaud in Thiruvananthapuram. She also assumed the role of the superintendent of the hospital.

She regaled audiences with her coy humour, comfortable in her size and gifted wit