Reclaiming the Right to Author Our Lives | Aaboo Varghese | TEDxMahindraUniversity

Muskan was a young 16year-old girl. One day she turned around to me and said, "Sir, my story was written even before I was born." She said, she wasn't angry. She wasn't dramatic.She said it as a statement of fact that someone might say this is my surname or this is my height. Trafficked at the age of 12, her childhood ended even before it began. Over the next few years, she was repeatedly abused, controlled, dehumanized, denied safety. She was denied choice and denied even the most basic dignity.She lived i ...