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Foreword Encomium
Coffee Table books were accepted by readers around the globe. Those books were well evoked and depicted to a well
strenuous imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged
for its beautiful pictorial depiction with brief contents, and presented by most modern methods smartly with attractive
binding, printing and publishing concepts.
Today the significance of women in the society is beyond any notion. In today’s world, women with their ambitions,
intelligence and strength have proved that the word inferior has nothing in universal or common with their gender.
Women have proved that they are not only a tool for bringing up children and looking after the household affairs of a
family. They can also be full members of society having their influence on all areas unconditionally.
Meanwhile, men were taking leading positions in business, economy, and science and were making the image of the
society. For a very long time, women were considered inferior to men. However, the role of a woman in society has
significantly changed during recent decades. The first positive change connected with the role of the women became
especially obvious since years. Gradually people started realizing the importance of women in the society as it is.
We live in a world where the people are bored, fashionable and often times superficial. It is well evident in our culture
from our fashion to beauty culture to the latest diet that makes unbelievable promises of weight gain or weight loss.
Williamsji Maveli has proved his literary abilities as
However, being a virtuous woman one would have to find a way to work around the woes of today's society. We find
an author with a series of brilliant publications
and chose a virtuous woman in each and every woman in this society. This is not only to be faced with a very difficult
inboth English and Malayalam. His distinguished challenge, but the virtuous woman is one who strives for excellence, balance and self-love.
experience and expertise in publishing has
accelerated his path in the transformation from a We are proudly presenting highly elegant Coffee table books in two volumes to our valuable authors and readers: One,
column writer to that of an established editor of With a unique title as "25 Wonderful Women of Virtue" and another, with the same theme, but a different title as “ 25
international journals. Williamsji is a member of Wonderful Women of Excellence”. We wish to congratulate all our well wishers and all contributors
WNWU holding an additional honorary member
status in their academy of World Higher Literary
Academic Council (WHLAC ).
Williamsji Maveli
Editor
I do not believe that we still have to focus on emphasizing the merits of women, convinced as I am of their right to gender equality
since the dawn of the world. I will not therefore get lost in listing the names of women who stood out over time, who reached the
highest peaks in the various fields of the human knowledge, let alone beat the key of human sensibility speaking of their qualities as
mothers and sisters. I live in a country where statistics say that the number of graduated women is higher than that of men, where it
is customary for women to share the same job with men therefore claiming equal rights, where judgments are given in relation to
recognized values as individuals, to the quality of the work they perform, not according to their genders.
But, where women are left in total ignorance, have no access to education things get complicated. Without a cultural and economic
autonomy they, inevitably, become weak social figures, usually totally dependent on men. Many more variables of a social, family
and emotional type could be considered which, all together, would give rise to an overall picture of the sad, bitter women’s
condition. So, no wonder if in some areas of the world women are almost considered and live as human sub-species. They must be
helped to gain the awareness of their inalienable rights as human beings and social subjects. But, one wonders and from many parts
how convictions and habits that have profound roots, that start from ancient times can be eradicated.
Well, international institutions should arouse local governments from their lethargy to prevent gender inequality, these are
unacceptable delays considering that it is from the late eighteenth century with La Declaration des Droits de la Femme et de la
Maria Miraglia is Educationist, writer, poet and Citoyenne of Olimpe de Gange and then with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792 by Mary Wollstonecraft that
translator, Maria Miraglia was born and lives in
equality is claimed The General Equity Campaign today demands "equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an
Italy. She graduated in Foreign Languages and
end to sexual harassment and all form of violence against women and girls, health care service that respond to their needs and their
Literatures and got a Master’s degree in Evaluation equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life".
from the A. Moro University of Bari; a Master’s
degree in Teaching of Modern Languages from the These are the goals that every human being with common sense should want to achieve, fighting alongside women for a better
University of Rome and an HLC from the Trinity common future.
College of Edinburgh. For long an active member A free, cultured independent woman can be a better wife, mother and citizen.
of Amnesty international, she is a member of the
Human Rights’ Observatory, Deputy President for Hence, I greatly appreciate Sethi's efforts to put together the stories of some women who distinguished for their personal values,
the United World Movement for Children their active presence in the social context. Sure that this wonderful pictorial work is not aimed at focusing attention on some female
Coordination, she herself founding member of skills but rather to express a sense of gratitude and praise for lives dedicated to the pursuit of beauty, to the love for a better world
World Foundation for Peace. through culture. Assuredly this coffee book, so beautifully illustrated, will receive the plaudits of both readers and critics.
Dr Maria Miraglia is the Literary Director of P.
Neruda, honorary member of Nationes Unidas de
las Letras, President of the Organization Mundial Maria Mirgalia, Italy
de los Trovatores, -Italy. She collaborates for poetry
with national and international magazines and is a
contributor of many poetry groups.