Sushama Deshpande who has portrayed Savitribai Phule in the 75-minute play Whaay Mee Savitri (Yes I am Savitri) since January 1989 says that when she presents the Hindi version Ha Main Savitribai in the villages of Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, she encounters more curiosity about Savitribai than during her her performances in Mumbai and Pune. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mulgi Shikli, Pragati Zhali (Girl gets education, Progress Achieved). The syntactic gawkiness of the catchphrase hits me each time I've come across it since its conception in 2003. The logo is the brainchild of the Maharashtra state-level Inter-Media Publicity Coordination Committee chaired by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's top boss. The committee's brief was to arrive at a maxim celebrating the positive ripple effect of a girl's education. For the last 15 years, the slogan continues to flash on the rear of a BEST bus or the wall of a Zilla Parishad school or the front of the state family welfare department's swag diary.