Empowerment

“The crossbow is a very silent but powerful weapon”

Anonymity can be a powerful tool when it helps empower the traditionally oppressed. A few organisations have begun to use Sarahah as a way to help people with a host of issues such as sexuality, health and domestic abuse.

A quest to ‘free’ our girl children from socially regressive practices this Independence Day.

Ensure that you get a receipt of your complaint after it is registered.

A child collective gave Revathi an opportunity to participate in diverse activities. She learnt about different child rights and how they were being or are violated.

These are the same people who will be our future politicians, bureaucrats, corporate heads. What inclusive society are we talking about?

Jhamtse gatsal is Tibetan for ‘a garden of love and compassion’. The outcome being worked towards is empowering each child in whatever choices they make.

Lakshmi Karunakaran, with the volunteers, has been conducting reading sessions with the children of about 200 families living in a slum.

The Islampur court is barely five minutes from the bus stand where she had slept in 2010, after inns refused to lodge her, because of her gender.

At the end of 2012, it seemed that India was on the brink of a revolution in response to it's rape crisis. Almost 5 years on, the issue persists, but now it has a number of individuals and groups fighting against it across the country.