Caterpillar
Wings proudly launched the debut work from Lakshmi Nambiar, Reema Gupta and
Sarada Akkineni, The Dot That Went For A Walk’
A
children's book with 51 illustrated stories that celebrate extraordinary
women from India including artists and scientists, healers and entrepreneurs
and rocket women of India, sportspeople and commando trainer. The book is
illustrated with original art by female artists from all over the nation and
each woman's story is written in the style of a fairy tale except these women
have been their own knights in shining armour.
The
launch ceremony, held at the Royal Opera House, was graced by some of the most
iconic names from various fields across India who have been featured in the
book. Actress Deepika Padukone, standup comedian Aditi Mittal, tabla player
Anuradha Pal, commando trainer Seema Rao and architect Brinda Somaya were among
the dignitaries who unveiled the book during the launch. Also present at the
event were actress Rakulpreet Singh and yesteryear actress Poonam Dhillon.
Speaking
on this initiative Rakulpreet said, "It is a great initiative and talking
about inequality between men and women, it is very important to bring out
inspiring stories that need to be known.
We only know about actors and sports personalities but somebody who is
into architecture or somebody who is a commando trainer wasn’t known to me. So
this kind of awareness and this kind of inspiring stories will influence a lot
of people to follow their heart and dreams. Believe it or not but the world is
a male dominated world but it is about how you make your place in it. We have
been brought up knowing that men dominate but we also know if you want to
achieve something you can and that is my motto."
Poonam
Dhillon added, "The initiative is fresh, the whole idea and I think the
time has come that women and their roles in society get recognized. I think
kids when they grow up they look up to their moms and they become their first
role models and I think there should be more such role models. When we identify
such women who are doing such wonderful work in different fields so from there
it can start that we can also do it and today women are in every field be the
army, in air or underground."
तमिल, तेलुगु और मलयालम में भी ‘सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक’ - क्लिक करें
