#Rewrite the Ending Contest Facebook Winner!
This week, Breakthrough is excited to announce the winners of our #Rewrite the Ending, fiction (re)writing competition! Applause to all of those who submitted. The sheer talent and creativity of all of the entries made picking just three a difficult task for our staff! Today, we’re delighted to announce the Facebook winner and two runners-up: [...]
Drum roll, please! The winners of our #Rewrite the Ending contest…
This week, Breakthrough is excited to announce the winners of our #Rewrite the Ending, fiction (re)writing competition! Applause to all of those who submitted. The sheer talent and creativity of all of the entries made picking just three a difficult task for our staff! Today, we’re delighted to announce the Twitter winner and two runners-up: [...]
Gearing up for 16 Days of Activism!
This year, Breakthrough will be participating in the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. 16DOA runs from November 25th to December 10th and aims to raise awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue. This year’s theme was recently announced: From Peace in [...]
“BellBajao Empowers Viewers”
We’re happy to report that BellBajao received some notable recognition today in The Financial Express:
Immigration and Detention: Women’s Human Rights Across Borders
As she went into labor Juana Villegas was shackled to her hospital bed. Living in Tennessee, she gave birth while in custody. She had been pulled over while driving and taken to jail when the officer discovered that she did not have a valid drivers license as was undocumented. She went to prison, where she [...]
When it happened to me…
No, today was not the first time I was ever insulted by a man in public. It was the first time though I ever bumped someone’s car unintentionally and unfortunately in the last five years that I’ve been driving on the angry male dominated Delhi roads, the first time when someone made me feel sorry [...]
The Scar Faced Girl
Redefining romance, this blogger writes about the traumatic past of his girlfriend who was incidentally an intern in the New Delhi office of Breakthrough. There’s no better example than in this long story that support system is all you need to get through the trauma of abuse.
Damsel in Dress or Distress
After studying English literature for 3 years in Delhi University, and staying with people like Saumya Aneja, I had become a loyal preacher of Feminism and Women Liberation. The books I read, the lectures I attended, the teachers I heard and all the brainstorming sessions had all made me look beyond the beliefs which saw [...]
The Wife Beater and the Bystander
- As related by a friend Fighting to stay positive on a day that ends in a sweaty crowd at Andheri station at 9 pm, I was trying to divert my mind from the stickiness of the situation. Changing hair partitions seemed an apt topic. It would take the right amount of visualization that would [...]
Mahila Hakkina Mela: The Change Theory
The mrudangam played the beats in perfect rhythm and the rain clouds gathered their might to pour over our Mahila Hakkina Mela towards the end of the day. The journey between Bangalore and Gubbi (where the mela was held) was long and it took us a daily commute of over 4 hours each day to [...]
