For the past 2 minutes I have been experiencing this excruciating pain in my throat. I am not even sick. Healthy at 27… bit stout… my husband calls me “kathirikkaai[brinjal]” instead of “Poorni”.
Ah… pain is getting worse…Where is my 4 year old son Raju? He could call someone for help. Oh! I saw him [...]

When a 18 year old is given the right to vote, it is ironic to note she doesn’t even have the right to choose what she can wear. I’m not going to ask people to GIVE women the freedom; Freedom is not charity but everyone’s right. All am saying is, don’t suppress us. We’re trying to float. If you try to push us under water, we shall come up with double the force.

Even after as many as 90 years after the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act in India, this practice runs unabated. This is the scenario not just in India but in various other parts of the world as well. There are many who wish that they had the power to curb this practice but feel helpless looking at the enormity of the issue. I’m one of them. On the other hand I’m unable to accept the statement that change doesn’t happen overnight. If it hasn’t happened in 90 years, how long will it take for this practice to end? Are we to wait for the change to happen and read it in papers or are we to be the change?