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Cindrella Prakash is a professional musician, plays the guitar and composes and sings her own songs. Her album Mehfuz has recently been released. Despite the trauma she has been through, Cindrella lights up the space around her with her smile and the joy she exudes.
Those who know him say that Harish Iyer learnt to take the lemons life handed him and make sweet lemonade. He has been a vociforous campaigner for the rights of children, and works with a number of NGOs. He believes that when people repent, they should be forgiven. “Hate destroys the hater,” he says.
Poet and writer, Nazneen Tonse is a poet and writer, and says that talking about what she endured sparks a cocktail of emotions: nervousness and terror, worry and panic, embarrassment and humiliation. It is a cocktail she drank through childhood, yet she is willing to drink it again because, she says, the message is too important to remain unsaid. Writes Nazneen, “All the other people with childhoods like mine need to know this: we survived. We can face it and learn from it and grow beyond it. And all the other children, the ones with childhoods as yet untouched, don’t need to know what we know.”
Ganesh Nallari started his career as a dentist and practiced for a couple of years before moving on to his real passion, design. An award-winning designer, Ganesh has a Masters in Fashion Design from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Textile design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology. Ganesh’s dictum: “I want to move forward without looking back.”
Anuja Gupta is the founder of Delhi-based Recovering and Healing from Incest (RAHI), one of the first groups in India dedicated to helping adult survivors of childhood incest. She helps survivors talk about their experiences and reach beyond their pain and trauma, thus breaking the silence surrounding child sexual abuse.
Clinical psychologist Dr Rajat Mitra is the Director of Swanchetan Society for Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing evidence-based care and psychological support to victims of heinous crimes. He has been working for the past 20 years in Delhi with prisons, law enforcement and judiciary in different capacities to understand the criminal justice system and work towards developing better methods of care within it.
Nishit Kumar is the head of Communications and Strategic Initiatives at CHILDLINE, India’s first toll-free helpline for children in distress, which responds to emergency needs of children and also links them to services for their long-term care and rehabilitation.
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