When Savitaben started working, she had to face discrimination for being both a woman and a Dalit. But that didn’t stop her. From a small job carting half-burnt coal to brick kilns, she steadily built up her business to sell most of the coal that arrived at the Ahmedabad railway yard.
Though her business thrived she couldn’t move out of her Dalit chawl until a moment of luck gave her a home in an upper-caste neighbourhood. However, the residents did not want any Dalits in their colony, and in the throes of the anti-reservation protests of 1985, her house was burnt down. Shoved back into ‘her place’, Savitaben resolved to build her business into an unassailable force. With deft investments and an iron will, Savitaben’s business now has a turnover of Rs 50 crore, and the woman who once sold coal now sells gold.
Find out how Savita triumphed over a system designed to work against her in this story.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: Jul/2017
Length : 8 Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
