Ela Bhatt: Doing

Ela Bhatt is founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA). Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“We were rebuilding the nation, looking to a more just society. It was a time when many of us were going to the villages to live there. We were a generation that had no confusion in our minds as to how to do things. Gandhiji had shown the way. This atmosphere infused politics and the way we did things.”

Ela Bhatt

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Way , Time

“[SEWA] have been doing many different things, leading the SEWA movement which is about economic freedom for the poor, women, and self employed.”

Ela Bhatt

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Women , Freedom

“Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.”

Ela Bhatt

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Teachers do not care…It is not because teachers are badly paid and the teachers are organized but they do not teach. If we don’t respect them it is because we see them doing other business than teaching.”

Ela Bhatt

On the low social regard for teachers.[Ghate, Chetan title=The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, http://books.google.com/books?id=kPYXpHSVbywC&pg=PA373, 13 March 2012, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-973458-0, 373–]

Business , Teachers