Chhavi Rajawat

Two women sarpanches from Rajasthan will be taking tough questions this evening - not from the people but from megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

It is not often that such initiatives take place where grassroots institutions and villagers are asked to participate in sharing their ideas in improving an existing policy.

There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontli...

Two women sarpanches from Rajasthan will be taking tough questions this evening - not from the people but from megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

It is not often that such initiatives take place where grassroots institutions and villagers are asked to participate in sharing their ideas in improving an existing policy.

There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontli...