Dear Friends, An ancient Sanskrit saying says, woman is the home and the home is the basis of society. It is as we build our homes that we can build our country. If the home is inadequate–either inadequate in material goods and necessities or inadequate in the sort of friendly, loving atmosphere that every child needs to grow and develop–then that country cannot have harm ony and no country which does not have harmony can grow in any direction at all. That is why women’s education is almost more important than the education of boys and men. We–and by “we” I do not mean only we in India but all the world–have neglected women education. It is fairly recent. Of course, not to you but when I was a child, the story of early days of women’s education in England, for instance, was very current. Everybody remembered what had happened in the early days. Now, we have got education and there is a debate all over the country whether this education is adequate to the needs of society or the needs...