WOMAN  OF  STEEL, RUPA   -   BOSCONET THOUGHTS

Rupa’s origins are in Ghasoli Village of Muzaffarnagar. Her mother died and her father remarried. They made her leave school when she was in class VI so that she could “help them with the house work”. When she was 15 her step-mother poured acid on her face! Was she envious of her step-daughter’s beauty?

Rupa is now 21. She lives in a shelter for acid attack victims in Lakshmi Nagar of East Delhi. She is helped by a “Stop Acid attacks” volunteer, Atul Kumar, the founder Alok Dixit, and a group of students of fashion design.

Rupa has stitched a few clothes, and each new one is better than the previous one. She is at the point of opening a boutique of her own where her clothes will be displayed and auctioned. She is determined to earn her own living, and pay for the numerous reconstructive surgeries she still requires (She has already undergone 11 of them!)

A woman of courage. What a waste of the gifts God bestowed on her. What a waste of her courage itself. Why should she have to use her courage merely to live a normal life when she could have used it to tackle many other challenges that face our nation! Why do we hurt people who can do no harm to us, and hurt them in such terribly inhuman ways?

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