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 […]

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 […]

Ria Sharma, a young woman who started an NGO called Make Love Not Scars (MLNS) to help acid attacks survivors get on with their lives, has bagged the UN’s Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards. Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, Priyanka Chopra, handed over the award to her in New York on Tuesday night (Sept 19). Ria is the only Indian […]

An amendment bill for the Persons with Disabilities Bill (PWD) has been proposed by social justice minister Thawar Chand Gehlot in which 21 medical conditions, including Parkinson’s disease and acid attack survivors, are to come under the disability law.

There is no stopping the acid attack menace. The crime, with the help of cheap and readily available acid, is rampant across India. To discuss the unregulated sale of acid in the capital that’s infamous for violence against women, Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Malliwal has called for a meeting of all District Magistrates. Acid sale was […]

Acid attacks in the country are on a rise in spite of the SC’s order on restrictive sales of the acid in shops

She is an acid attack survivor who has not let the incident dampen her spirits or zest for life

When she walks the ramp at the New York Fashion Week, it will be a vindication of her belief that an acid attack need not mean her life is over.

Courageous acid attack survivor Reshma Qureshi will be flying to the Big Apple for a very special assignment