Rukmini Rao from Hyderabad bats for women’s rights, fiercely guards her own independence
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“I had a very happy childhood. I grew up in a household of women. I lived with my great grandmother, grandmother, mother and an aunt and am used to women running the household” says V Rukmini Rao, social and rural development activist who won the Readers’ Choice award at the recently held Femina Awards in the Social Impact category.
Hailing from Hyderabad, Rukmini recalls there was no discrimination between her and her two brothers and her great grandmother too showed the boys no favour. “When we went for holidays, she would give each of us equal amounts of money to buy what we wanted,” says Rukmini. She lost her father at the tender age of two but her mother made up for this loss with her extra care, she fondly recollects. So Rukmini went to the best school in town. Her mother was the one who suggested that Rukmini should opt for higher education. She was keen on