According to the National Crime Records Bureau data between 2014 and 2018, there have been 1,483 victims of acid attacks in the country. This when over the counter sale of acid was banned in 2013.
“You burned my face, but not my will to live. You cannot throw acid on that” says acid attack survivor Dolly
The movie is an attempt to help people understand why it is illogical and dangerous to relate a woman’s self-esteem with her external beauty.
Rekha Arya, Uttarakhand Minister of Women and Child Welfare announced a pension scheme for acid attack survivors, providing them with Rs 5000-6000 per month so that they can live a dignified life.
“I got two responses back. One was that nobody has been acknowledged and second was that she would attend to all this after the movie released. Both of them did not make sense to me. Then I had no choice because once the movie was released there was nothing we could have done,” Bhat recalled.
Reshma Qureshi’s is a story that must be told. As a teenager, Reshma was assaulted by her brother-in-law who splashed her face with acid in Allahabad as she was walking to school with her sister. Her story puts a face to those countless survivors who live with scars within for their entire lives. The Mumbai-based Reshma, […]
Ria Sharma’s first book Make Love Not Scars voices the brave stories of acid attack survivors. An excerpt from ‘Rehabilitating the Survivors’: AT SOME POINT ONE IS BOUND TO COME TO A crossroads of sorts. It wasn’t my work that was failing me, it was my inability to rehabilitate the survivors successfully that was demotivating me. Slowly […]
The acid menace is something that keeps shocking the conscience of our nation from time to time. Six persons, including five women in their early 20s, were injured when some unidentified persons allegedly threw acid at them from a moving taxi in Kolkata, reported Hindustan Times. The incident took place during the early morning office […]
Throwing acid at women is one of the cruellest acts of violence. Besides the physical scars, the survivors also suffer from long-term emotional trauma. But in a bid to better the lives of acid attack survivors, several initiatives are being taken up. Let us look at some of them: Employment at DCW In 2016, the Delhi […]
Delhi government has chalked out guidelines that help survivors of road accidents, acid attacks and thermal burn injuries get cashless treatment of medico-legal cases. As per the guidelines, survivors will have the facility to get medical checkup done free of cost. The caveat is, Arvind Kejriwal-led govt announced, this will be applicable only to the incidents taking place […]
