“Gurusaday Dutt’s wife was beside her husband but not in the same kind of work. She chose her area of work. She first started working in Pabna (now in Bangladesh) with women who were under purdah,” said Jawhar Sircar, former MP and retired IAS officer, the chief guest....
“In the 1920s, it had a very profound impact. At the cutting edge, she played a big role — at the grassroots level not only at the educated level. Nari Sikha would later on become a model for women’s development after Independence,” Sircar told The Telegraph.
