‘What do you want to do with her?’ screams the question accompanying the picture of a beautiful young teenager in a fake Facebook account. The responses to it are sickening and unreadable. It is apparent that the young woman had no idea where her photograph would end up or how it would be … Continue reading Violence Against Women by Bhuvaneshwari Shivakumar Shankar
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Female Genital Mutilation by Esha Chakraborty
Female Genital Mutilation: A violation of a woman’s most basic Right to Health "My two sisters, myself and our mother went to visit our family back home. I assumed we were going for a holiday. A bit later they told us that we were going to be infibulated. The day before our operation was … Continue reading Female Genital Mutilation by Esha Chakraborty
Courage Is Grace Under Fire
It’s not every day that we find ourselves in presence of someone great; and are faced with the realization that no matter what we do, we could never amount to even a fraction of all that they are. It’s even rarer to relish that feeling and bask in its afterglow, rather than detest it. When … Continue reading Courage Is Grace Under Fire
Women, Art, and Empowerment – The Journey by Radhika Maira Tabrez
Women, Art, and Empowerment – The Journey Gaius Plinius Secundus, a Roman writer, in the 1st century claimed that a woman named Dibutandes made the first ever painting. As her lover prepared to travel afar, she traced his silhouette on the wall, to remember him by. But ever since then women, have been struggling to … Continue reading Women, Art, and Empowerment – The Journey by Radhika Maira Tabrez
INCREDIBLE WOMEN OF INDIA 