India as a country has always envisioned equality in our society but the reality lies far from truth. Since the very inception of human race, society taught the females to adjust more and to keep quiet about subjugations on women. Every time a street lecher passed a lewd remark, we were asked to avoid him; that distant uncle who tried to graze his hands on our private parts; the r**e victims keepi
ng silent under fear of being public shaming; Covering the act of domestic violence under the pretext of love, avoiding dungy roads in the wake of the night under the fear of something bad happening to us and much more. We have all been there and we have all learnt to live with this. This is exactly why we have been baptized as the “weaker sex”. Jwala or ‘blaze of fire’ is a non-profit, self-funded organisation that stems from the idea revolutionizing the status of women in India. Jwala was started as a movement by a group of resilient and self-made women, led by Dr. Divya Gupta in 2012 as a result of Nirbhaya Case in Delhi.
