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About Ruchira Gupta
As a journalist, I stumbled upon rows of villages with missing girls and became a life-long activist against sex-trafficking. I made a documentary, won an Emmy and showed the documentary to the United Nations and the US Senate for the passage of anti-trafficking laws. I also started an NGO, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, that has aided thousands of girls and women in exiting prostitution systems. I KICK AND I FLY is my debut fiction novel based on the true stories that I witnessed and experienced as an activist in my NGO. I have won my awards but my work is not finished.
“We will make a world in which no human being is bought or sold.”
Ruchira Gupta1997 | Selling of Innocents: A documentary on sex-trafficking from Nepal to Mumbai, India
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RUCHIRA GUPTA
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I Kick and I Fly
Fourteen-year-old Heera knows she is living on borrowed time when she is expelled from school. There is no food at home and her father wants to sell her into the sex trade. She has no means to fight back until a woman’s rights advocate enrolls her in her Kung Fu class. Through it, Heera learns that her body isn’t an object to be preyed upon, but a vessel to free herself
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Ruchira Gupta & Ashley Judd on - NBC News
The effect of being a victim in high profile cases, Ruchira Gupta, Women Plumbers Women & premature deaths, Story of Ana Obregón - BBC
I Kick and I Fly (Scholastic, April 18) is an intense, dramatic story showing the desperation of families - KIRKUS REVIEW
Emmy-winner Ruchira Gupta's debut novel dives into world of prostitution - THE WEEK
I Kick and I Fly by Ruchira Gupta shows how children must be drawn into conversations about exploitation - THE HINDU
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