04/06/2013
"No matter how many stories I tell, the larger feeling in the world does not change in this respect. I’ve had situations where people have had lengthy discussions with me, and I’ve spent three hours talking to them about this issue, and often when they seem to understand, they don’t really. There was one particular place that the girls (after rescued from prostitution gangs) went to work. I spent a couple of hours of talking to this employer and I thought the situation could work, but every time my girl who was working there talked to a male colleague, immediately I would get a call — “Oh Sunitha, you know this girl is getting very friendly with the men here.”
So you see, her every move is watched. She can’t be friendly to a man, she can’t fall in love with anybody. I remember this particular girl falling in love with a co-worker there, and the employer actually called the co-worker and told him what her background was, saying, “How dare you fall in love with this girl? You have no idea what her background is.” He also called the girl and said, “How dare you fall in love with this chap? Don’t you know where you’ve come from?”
This is a kind of isolation I am not able to digest. This is a kind of isolation I don’t know how to come to terms with, and this is where I feel like a failure. How much more can you explain to these people?" - Sunitha Krishnan, founder of Prajwala, who has rescued thousands of children from child prostitution.
Congratulations to Sunitha Krishnan for being appointed as a member of Andhra Pradesh State Women's Commision.
