Dating back to a time when women were confined within abodes, expected to remain invisible, unheard, and unquestioning, Kadambini Ganguly’s voice reverberated through the male-dominated corridors of ...

In late nineteenth-century Bengal, a woman choosing education was already considered transgressive. A woman choosing medicine was seen as reckless. A woman practising medicine was treated as a threat.

The School for Bad Girls by Madhurima Vidyarthi blends history and fiction to narrate the struggles of pioneering women like Kadambini Ganguly, India’s first female doctor. Told through the eyes of ...

Women's health has long been neglected throughout history, and one of the primary reasons for this is the lack of female representation. It was only in the late 1800s that an Indian woman earned a ...

Kadambini Ganguly defied every societal expectation to become India’s first woman doctor of Western medicine. From challenging caste and gender norms to confronting colonial discrimination head-on, ...