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Mother at heart

“We have often heard comments like ‘Achcha, sex workers ki sanstha hai?’ and have had prospective donors hang up on us.”

Mummy, mummy,” her girls came in, when she put me on hold during the interview. They had come to greet her, as they always did after school. She spoke to each one of them, fondly instructing them to eat the fruit from her bag. “I have never asked any of them to call me that, but they just do,” says Triveni Acharya, co-founder and president of Rescue Foundation, an NGO that works towards rescuing, rehabilitating, and repatriating victims of

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