— by Jemi Thomas, MA Clinical Psychology Since 1990, 17.3 million girls in India have been aborted (killed, to say it as it is) due to sex-selective abortions and other forms of pre-natal selection. 17.3 million girls!  Why did these 17.3 million girls lose their lives? The answer is painfully simple. These girls were considered […]

43 year old Babita did not have an easy life. She was rejected by her own father from birth because she was born a girl, and not a son like he had always prayed for! Babita worked as a seamstress initially but her passion to serve the women in her community made her join the ASHA initiative and become an ASHA worker.

by Anushree Bernard The United Nations declared 8th of March in 1975 as International Women’s Day to celebrate the social, cultural, political and economic achievements of women across the world. This day gained prominence over the years and it grew from strength to strength as it gave a spectacle to all nations of the world […]

by Tehmina Arora 33,260. This number is the approximate cost of 10g of gold in the city of Delhi. Sadly, it is also the number that will determine how many girl children that are born in India, and how they are cared for. According to research, the cost of a daughter’s marriage including having to […]

Lalita (name changed) lives with her husband and two girls in Madanpur Khadar, a small village in South Delhi, India. The abuse started for her since she delivered a baby girl, for the second time. When she gave birth the third time, it was again a girl. Her family made it clear to her this […]

My name is Priyanka. There were four women who were pregnant at the same time, three women in my neighbourhood and the fourth being my mother. However, the other three women had given birth to boys and my mother gave birth to me. This disappointed everyone in my family and the most disappointed was my […]