From garages to papad-making machines, solar-powered technologies are providing women with home-based micro-entrepreneurship opportunities, increasing their productivity and reducing drudgery
About 40 km away from Bengaluru, in Devanahalli, by the highway in an auto repair shop Om Shakti Garage, men in blue overcoats bustle around, as people come and go. As we approach closer, a woman dressed in a bright pink kurta, who has been working on her finances in a notebook, stands up from the desk in the corner and greets us with a warm smile: “Namaste, mera naam Yallama hai. Mein transgender hoon [Namaste, my name is Yallama. I am a transgender woman].”