She gets up earlier than everybody else in the house. It’s 5! I overslept again, she thinks. She wakes up the kids, gives them milk and makes tea for the others. Her morning is hectic to ensure that everybody else’s is perfect. Then, it’s running after the kids to hurry up — that school bus has [...]
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Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other [...]
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The other day I was lazing in the sun with my copy of Times of India and a big cup of tea. I was casually turning the pages and just reading the head lines of the main paper. By the time I reached page no. 20, I was yawning and wanted to close my eyes. [...]
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We received this email directly from a victim of domestic violence in Abu Dhabi. She has been living with violence for long being beaten up in every few months. We are sharing her story with you, hoping somebody in her neighborhood would ring the bell and bring a halt. Unless somebody will come forward and [...]
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If someone dislocated your jaw in one of the many violent beatings they gave you, how would you like to try to live with them and win their love?
23 year old Neha committed suicide on January 1st. Her family alleged that her in laws “used to beat her up…” [Link] “Once she was beaten so [...]
25th November is the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women”. In 1999, the General Assembly had designated November 25 as the day aimed at raising awareness about the plight of many women worldwide. On its 10th anniversary UN has launched a global campaign to end domestic violence against women. The campaign is [...]
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“Child Marriage is equivalent to child sex abuse, much worse than the umbrella term RAPE or MOLESTATION.
A shameful part of the glorious India that we boast of often… where the child woman spends her life in distress, pain and darkness.”
read on…
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I got married at a very young age when I was still in college. First one month of the marriage everything was normal. We had lots of visitors coming over and were also invited at various relatives’ places. It was a lot of fun.
Then it was my first birthday after wedding and my parents had [...]
The many faces of hard work, struggle, the many pursuits through hot and cold weather, a fragile body in a crowded train or a worried look on a silent journey – are all faces of woman’s freedom and independence, captured aptly by Tusha Bhatia in this photograph taken in a ladies compartment of a Mumbai [...]
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