How women in rural India turned courage into capital | Chetna Gala Sinha

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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When bankers refused to serve her neighbors in rural India, Chetna Gala Sinha did the next best thing: she opened a bank of her own, the first ever for and by women in the country. In this inspiring talk, she shares stories of the women who encouraged her and continue to push her to come up with solutions for those denied traditional financial backing.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features banker and social entrepreneur Chetna Gala Sinha, recorded live at TED-2018.
0:09.6	I'm here to tell you not just my story, but stories of exceptional women from India, whom I have met.
0:18.4	They continue to inspire me, teach me, guide me in my journey of my life.
0:25.3	These are incredible women. They never had an opportunity to go to school. They never no degrees,
0:32.4	no travel, no exposure. Ordinary women who did extraordinary thing
0:38.3	with the greatest of their courage,
0:41.3	wisdom and humility.
0:43.3	These are my teachers.
0:45.3	For last three decades,
0:48.3	I've been working, staying and living in India
0:51.3	and working with women in rural India.
0:55.0	I was born and brought up in Mumbai.
0:58.0	When I was in college, I met Jeh Prakash Narayan,
1:03.0	famous Gandhian leader who inspired youth to work in rural India.
1:09.0	I went in the villages to work in rural India. I went in the villages to work in rural India.
1:12.9	I was part of land rights movement,
1:15.9	farmers' movement and women's movement.
1:19.4	On the same line, I ended up in a very small village,
1:24.2	fell in love with young, handsome, dynamic young farmer leader
1:30.0	who was not very educated, but he could pull the crowd.
1:35.3	And so in the passion of youth, I married him.
1:39.4	I left Mumbai and went to a small village
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