Devkali is an active member of School Management Committee (SMC) of Primary School Terahimafi in Banda district. She holds regular monthly meetings with SMC members and teachers and has kept the discu...
Forty-seven year old Arokiarani, a fish vendor by profession, lives with her husband in a thatched houses in Dumil Kuppam. Her husband’s a painter and her two children are married and settled with the...
Seventy-eight year old Zakruddin lives in Dumil Kuppam, a Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) settlement along the sea in Chennai. He lives alone; his wife fell ill a year ago and moved to her nat...
She has built a community that helps poor girls who can’t afford to study or support themselves. She sees in them her own image, her own struggles, and her own childhood. What keeps her going is her e...
When he tried facing the world upfront turning pain into anger, he experienced more atrocities and subjugation. However, today the ‘rebel’ is no longer caught in the clash between morality and violenc...
Forty-year-old Rajini Ammal is a transgender who is a priest at the Angalaparameshwari temple in MKB Nagar in Chennai. Her life has been through the wringer just like any other trans persons and so sh...