HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Oct 26: Women Entrepreneur Network Manipur (WEMN), Women Entrepreneur Network Nagaland (WENN), and GIZ India’s Project Her & Now launched a graphic novel titled ‘WE Mean Business – 20 Women Entrepreneurs, 20 Stories’ in English and its Hindi version- “Mera Business, Meri Kahaani” at KAGO football Artificial turf, Imphal and Chumoukedima, Nagaland. The launch was followed by a pop-up bazaar from WENN women entrepreneurs.
The graphic novel is a celebration of women entrepreneurs in India and is an anthology of graphic narratives by and of twenty inspiring business women from across India. The visual retellings convey their protagonists’ diverse life stories and life worlds as they choose to narrate them. These are stories of ambitious women defying expectations and claiming space from diverse trajectories in non-metropolitan India.
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Speaking about the book launch, the authors, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Shrutika Mathur, and Nishtha Vadehra said, “This is a book of conversations with women entrepreneurs who let us into their worlds and journeys. In each of these stories we got distinct visual opportunities to articulate their familiar challenges in unfamiliar terrains, to realise the inspiring possibilities of making things happen on their terms.”
Talking about the launch event, WEMN member Swati Thounaojam, founder of The White Lotus, said, “As a network, WEMN’s goal is to create a more enabling environment for women entrepreneurs in Manipur. This event is a celebration of women entrepreneurs, their diverse realities, business journeys, and ambitions. We plan to do many more such events in the region and grow our network far and wide.”
