India, Oct. 4 -- On her 501st birth anniversary, Rani Durgavati's legacy of courage endures-bridging 16th-century battlefields with today's struggle for gender equality in India's boardrooms and governance

Centuries before India's Ministries, Policies and Flagship programmes were ever imagined, a young queen rode to the frontlines and chose honour, courage and duty over surrender. Rani Durgavati - remembered across central India as a warrior-queen and a paragon of valour - still speaks to a nation of women who are re-shaping public life, business, science and civic affairs. On her 501st Birth Anniversary, we are reminded of her story and the values it embodies which form a living thread from the battlefields of the 16th Century to the Po...