Ankita Apurva

Nov 8, 2023 | behanbox.com | Ankita Apurva |Sumedha Pal |Divya Tiwari |Pubali Chakraborty

Trigger Warning: The article contains mentions of sexual abuse and violence. Ranchi, Jharkhand: “You have a sex demon inside of you. When I touch you, only then will it be scared away,” the pastor said to Akriti Lakra. He had been brought by her family to “counsel” her in the wake of a breakdown brought on by mental health issues. Lakra had also just come out to her family as bisexual.

Sep 7, 2023 | behanbox.com | Ankita Apurva |Pradeepan Ravi |Anuj Behal

Ranchi: “My parlour customers often request me to finish their work quickly, saying they have yet to get their goats back home,” says Shiuli Mitra with a chuckle as she moves from one customer to another, threading their eyebrows. The beautician, dressed in a plain cotton sari and her face makeup free, is from the Moira community of Bengali sweet-makers. Mitra’s parlour, built in the early 2000s in Silli village of Ranchi district, is on a plot where her mother-in-law’s hut once stood.

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