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Lessons of Socio-economic benefits from Early-Empowered Women *Sivashruthy.N **Varsheni.N Abstract: Empowerment of women has been a far- reaching goal even today, though its strife began even from the early days of Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiar, who dreamed of a “Pudumai Pen” signifying a totally empowered woman. There is a misconception among people of today that women were always treated as child- bearing machines and that they were born to serve men since the ancient times. Avaiyar, Savitri, Draupadi, Ahilya Bai Holkar stand as testimonies to the fact that women were not confined to home making but also to rule and educate the world. W omen were also treated as angel s and also deities in the ancient times. modern society misinterpreted this respect and reverence for women for their convenience to confine women only to household chores. I t is astounding  that this respect for women as deities does not strike the minds of the brutal rapists. T his paper brings to l...

Poosanikkaiyum Pei Padamum:

        T he trend for today is to dress up in a Halloween style during Halloween. Happily, only the front benchers are dressed up like that. You can’t understand?        Who will go to IT firms? Engineers or toppers in the class with “concerned” parents, who would ask their wards to take the first benches rather than occupying the precious back bench, the Antarctic, which is meant for explorers like the back benchers to explore. Obviously the front benchers, who were well-disciplined, always in perfect uniform with every strand of hair at its perfect place, now look like how we were in the school with nails not clipped, ribbon always out of a bow, kajal that has come down by rubbing the eyes after a luxurious digital nap…(computer class). Though they work in India, they assume themselves to be on-site. Quoting a kollywood version of a halloween movie, “Ganga, Chandramukhiya ninna. Ganga Chandramukhiya thanna ninaicha. Ganga Chandramukhi...