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Sunitha Krishnan
Indian social activist
Sunitha Krishnan (born 1972) is an Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, a non-governmental organization that rescues, rehabilitates and reintegrates sex-trafficked victims into society.[3] She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2016.[4]
Early life
Krishnan was born in Bangalore, to PalakkadMalayali parents Raju Krishnan and Nalini Krishnan.[2] She saw most of the country early on while traveling from one place to another with her father, who worked with the Department of Survey which makes maps for the entire country.[3]
Krishnan's passion for social work became manifested when, at the age of eight years, she started teaching dance to mentally challenged children.[5] By the age of twelve, she was running schools in slums for underprivileged children.[5] At the age of fifteen, while working on a neo-literacy campaign for the Dalit community, Krishnan was gang raped by eight men.[6] They di
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| ISSN/ISBN | 0472098748 (alk. paper) |
| 9780472098743 (alk. paper) | |
| 0472068741 (pbk. : alk. paper) | |
| 9780472068746 (pbk. : alk. paper) | |
| Descript | xii, 247 p. ; 24 cm |
| Contents | Label us angry / Jeremiah Torres -- 1984 / Sunita Puri -- Death of a butterfly / Felix Poon -- A place where I want to be / Nupur Chaudhury -- Comings and goings / Vinh Nguyen -- Seoul searching / Rebecca J. / Gordon Wang -- Doppelgänger / Frederick Macapinlac -- Caught between cultures: identity, choice, and the hyphenated American / Margot Seeto -- The paradox of being too Chinese and not Chinese enough / Bryant Yang -- I am going home / Duncan Zheng |
| Subject | Asian Americans -- Race identity |
| Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity | |
| Asian American youth -- Biography | |
| Asian American youth -- Social conditions | |
| Asian Americans -- Social conditions | |
| Identity (Psychology) | |
| United States -- Race relations | |
| Alt Author | Han, Arar, 1981- |