(TW: Child abuse, domestic violence) We offer so much consideration and understanding to adults. We accept that they make mistakes. We say that teachers and parents are not perfect and they’re trying their best. Yet, when it comes to children, who due to their barely developed brains and relatively new arrival to this world should … More Hitting A Child Is Disrespecting A Child
I haven’t been able to pen my thoughts in a long while after experiencing loss and I just fell short of words. My friend had asked me to write a piece on “Child labour,” and while it didn’t stir me up to write about it immediately, I just looked up some of my childhood pictures … More Our privileges are not everyone’s
“Main isliye kama rahi hu, taaki maa ko mehnat na karni pade (I am earning, so that my mother doesn’t have to),” said Prerna, who is the daughter of a domestic worker and has been working ever since she was 10. She is based out of Mumbai and did go to school. However, her circumstances were … More “I Work So My Mother Doesn’t Have To”: Tackling Child Labour In India
On June 28th 2015, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched #SelfieWithDaughter on Twitter. The campaign aimed to raise awareness of gender imbalances and encouraged the parents to give importance to their daughters. Within a few hours, Twitter was flooded with selfies of fathers and daughters using #SelfieWithDaughter. The campaign created a buzz and everyone spoke … More Unwanted!
The frail, papery hand reached over the pile of papers on the wooden desk towards the red, hardbound book. Green veins ran crisscross under the pale skin, and the slender fingers looked like they would break and give way as they lightly held the book and flipped through the pages. The owner of these hands … More The Robbery of a Life
Statistics point to a significant (and horrifying) rise of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) during the past two years since the outbreak of the pandemic. Isolated, and often locked indoors with the perpetrators (who are more often than not family or close relatives) children have had no access to help or escape. The responsibility and onus … More Veritas
at a traffic signal in a few fugitive minutes timelines crossed; locked in a gaze that held the clock’s swing, his stretched hand begs (vulnerable in the asking) for something, just anything, he believes it is in my power to give but i, i hesitate (like you do) analyse, rationalize the inconsequential consequences of giving … More a quiver full of arrows
Education is one of the key focus areas of SDGs, and one entire Goal, No. 4 is dedicated to it. Even though India has made improvements towards achieving SDGs and now has a score of 66, a six-point jump from the previous digit, there is still a long way to go. According to the Right … More Sustainable Development Goals Are Goals for Girls
(Written from the perspective of a child who has experienced abuse) I close my eyes and imagine butterflies As you ravage my fragile frame My beautiful colors weep and seep out, splattered across the canvas In the pull and push of your dirty desire. My tiny hands struggle and writhe Trying to shake away the … More Imagine Butterflies
You would think that after several millennia of co-existing, humankind would have figured out how to treat each other with kindness and empathy. However, this is unfortunately not the case. As a glimpse around will tell us, the world is plagued by various social injustices like discrimination on the basis of race, gender and sexuality, … More Understanding Child Abuse
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