Laxmi Aggarwal, 30, the acid-attack survivor who won hearts with her courage and poise, in circumstances that would have seen many crumble, and was one of the winners of the US State Department’s International Women of Courage Award in 2014 (First Lady, Michelle Obama presented it), is now without a job and may soon be without a home. That India’s best-known acid attack survivor is finding it difficult to get […]

Kalpana Ghodawat, a brave acid attack survivor, who runs a beauty parlour. Kalpana has undergone at least 100 surgeries, but feels one must always love life. Her favourite place in the world, she says, is her beauty parlour where she loves making women look more beautiful. We salute her courage! I wake up early and go to my shop by 9 am. It is a grocery shop which belongs to […]

Those trying several tactics to make their relationships work, here’s an example of real love for them. A well-to-do electrical engineer Chittaranjan Tiwari fell in love with a disfigured acid attack survivor Sonali Mukherjee when he saw her daring to face the limelight on the famous television show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. It was not an attempt by Mukherjee to gain sympathy of public by appearing on the big screen rather […]

Justice delayed is justice denied, and if that is the case then the 21-year-old victim of a horrific acid attack can rightly complain that justice doesn’t prevail in the city. Four months after her husband threw acid on her face while she was asleep, the police for one have not arrested the accused yet and, secondly, the charges applied against him are lenient. Police have applied sections of causing grievous […]