If you haven’t heard of the Women on 100 campaign, I’m telling you about it now. It’s a campaign to include a woman on the 100 rupee note. Currently the campaign’s blog lists six possible candidates. Aruna Asaf Ali, freedom fighter and first mayor of Delhi; Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, freedom fighter, women’s rights activist and promoter of India’s rich crafts traditions; Pandita Ramabai, an educationist, who opened a shelter-cum-school for widows; Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman to ever take the Bachelor of Civil Laws at Oxford and the first woman to practice law in both India and Britain; Bhikaji Cama, freedom fighter and social worker; and last but not least, Savitribai Phule, anti-caste reformer, poet and education pioneer.

On a blog and through the Twitter handle @womenon100 the campaign is asking people to choose from these six women or suggest other women to be put on the 100 rupee note.Women are not entirely unrepresented in the national naming landscape. There are some streets named after women. Many in some cities — like Bombay — and hardly at all in others. Women figure more often on postage stamps — from Madhubala to various freedom fighters to the anonymous tea plantation worker.