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Ramaa Reddy Raghavan is a freelance journalist who enjoys working in a multimedia landscape that fuses print, audio, video and photography. She is a graduate of Columbia's Broadcast School of Journalism.
Jyotsna’s story begins with a decision to freeze her eggs five years ago in New York and is sustained by a remarkable degree of family and community support. “Ten years ago I would have said ‘no’,” says her mother. “But things are changing.”
“I’m a human rights activist now,” Leslee Udwin says. Her film, still banned in India, is being aired on PBS today, Nov. 16. The government has made its own, official film about the notorious and vicious rape, which she shrugs off as reassuring propaganda.