From micro-loans to market stalls and digital storefronts, women-led collectives are reshaping India’s grassroots economy even as systemic roadblocks remain. Here’s how.

Many people come to therapy wondering why consuming self-help content isn’t helping them. They ask questions like: “I read more self-help books than anyone I know. It makes me feel inferior because ...

Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.

Many people come to therapy wondering why consuming self-help content isn’t helping them. They ask questions like: “I read more self-help books than anyone I know. It makes me feel inferior because ...