India, March 16 -- Who says women can't manage both home and work? A woman does not work for anyone's approval, she works for herself. Her choices are not up for debate. Whether she works, when she works, or why she works is not a question of permission but of purpose.

In small towns like Ranchi, Jharkhand, a working woman is still seen as a challenge to tradition, a taboo that many hesitate to break. These women become a quiet force of change, proving that ambition and responsibility can go hand in hand.

Alibha Khalkho, just 19, is one of them. She grew up in Chikarkota Barkatoli, Ranchi, Jharkhand, a village where girls are expected to marry young, not carve their own paths. "Main tho 19 saal ki hoon, ab gaon mein abhi se hi bolta hai...