I come from a small village in West Bengal. I was four years old when my older sister was offered a job by a neighbor. My mother thought ...

I grew up in a very impoverished home in one of the flood hit villages of Bangladesh. I wanted to study but my parents couldn't afford to...

As a 14 year old girl in India, I should normally be studying in class 9, playing with my friends and enjoying my childhood. But that's n...

I was a young carefree girl playing and enjoying myself as a child. One day suddenly my world was turned upside down. When I was 14 my pa...

I was the apple of my father’s eyes, protected by my brothers, loved to bits by my mother and pampered by all my family and relatives. I ...

Growing up in a village far away, I simply knew my parents were in Mumbai to earn a living for me and my 3 siblings. What I didn't know u...

I grew up in the temple where the priests told me that my parents died after I was born. I don't remember seeing them. I became a young m...

I called my husband by his name, and my in-laws -  who were people I saw on an everyday basis before marriage as 'dada','dadi' (terms for...