Today, 0n 26th April, 2019, I had a very interesting morning when I got a call from Rajani Rao Palleti and she came to visit me in the University. Rajani was one of the first Research assistant who was appointed in the Women's Studies Cell along with another girl Aruna, back then in 1984. We had no money but huge plans and a lot of ambitions and enthusiasm. Thete were so many young faculty who were involved with the Cell, Santa Sinha, Pradipto Chowdhry, Marathe, Mithilesh, Aloka Sen, Minakshi Mukherjee, Kameshwari and myself. Rajani had helped in organising few seminars and workshops that we conducted. She also coordinated the first Project that we did in the Cell on Creches in the Organised and Unorganised sectors in Hyderabad. It was a long journey down memory lane when she told me that back then we did not even have a proper room to sit and the room was so dark that we could not even see each others face. This was the Cell that we had at Golden Threshold. She was very happy to see our own building and I told her this was all thanks to Malladi Subamma Garu who donated money for our building. Rajani has now migrated to the US. I felt very happy to be connected to a piece of our history as we struggled and developed the Cell into a Centre and hopefully into a Department in future.
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