Because I Am A Girl

With an Introduction by Govind Nihalani and written by personalities from all walks of life - writers actors artists and TV stars - the stories try to capture their struggles their dreams and how they keep hope alive in their lives. Anjum Hasan visits a village in Bharatpur Rajasthan where young girls are forced to become sex workers. Pooja Bedi goes to Lucknow and meets a woman who gets an ultrasound done but then decides against killing her unborn baby girl. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan travels to Hyderabad where she meets a young girl who comes to the city learns data entry and finds herself a job. Shahana Goswami meets a young school drop-out who has done a beautician's course and plans to set up her own parlour. Namrita Bachchan tells the story of a young girl who sells vegetables in the male-dominated Delhi's Govindpuri sabzi mandi during the wee hours of the morning and then learns to read and write during the day. Nafisa Ali Sodhi writes about a young girl in Delhi who works as a rag picker but is a bright young student. Aditi Rao Hydari encounters a woman whose husband died of tuberculosis and who is training to be a nurse now while being an apprentice in a hospital.