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| At IIM Bangalore, a course for wome |
| At IIM Bangalore, a course for women in politics
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| INDIA
, 24-September-2012
9:0:16 AM |
| : In her early 30s, Nagashree has taken a little over two months off to go back to school. So at 10 am on a weekday, dressed in an salwar kameez, she is walking down the corridor of Bangalore's prestigious Indian Institute of Management or IIM for a lecture on personal effectiveness.
There are 25 women who, like her, have enrolled for a course titled India Women in Leadership. It's the X,Y,Z for women who know the ABCs of politics.
Nagashree is a zilla panchayat member from a district in south Karnataka. She hopes the course will provide a booster shot to her political career. "How women can be empowered - how they can learn things - like winning strategies of the elections and personal skills like communication skills, body language, strategic thinking and how to be a leader - and what are the qualities of the leader," she says.
20 of the 26 women in this course have contested at least one election. The balance say that while they've so far circled politics, the course may persuade them to make a run for it. "My political ambition is to be in state politics, serve as an MLA in my place - and I want to be a minister in future." Lubna Sarwath works with an NGO in Hyderabad dedicated to those who have dropped out of school. "Today I do not see politics, or the political system, as a distant thing from me...now, going home interacting with the corporators, the MPs the MLAs - I don't see that as very far from me," she explains.
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