Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.
Kipling was paying tribute to the Vicereine who established the Fund associated with her name. This was an organisation which employed medical women (or 'lady doctors') to run a chain of hospitals and dispensaries all over India and Burma.
THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.