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Swapna Majumdar

Swapna Majumdar

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Swapna Majumdar is an independent journalist based in New Delhi and writes on development and gender.

Meet India’s First Transgender Woman Lawyer

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | January 24, 2019

I was determined to enroll only as a trans woman lawyer, even if it took more than a decade.

Anupam Singh: Saving Lives After Her Own Dream Dies

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | December 26, 2018

I tell parents not to marry their daughters young. They must be educated so that they can follow their dreams and not die while giving birth.

India: Where Pregnant Women are More than Statistics

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | September 18, 2018

India has experienced a 22 percent reduction in its maternal mortality rate since 2013. Here’s one major reason why.

Beyond Begging: Meet the Mother of a Thousand Orphans

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | May 21, 2018

Now everybody who rejected me wants to felicitate me, including my marital and natal family.

Looking Up to Visually-Impaired Girls in India, through Judo

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | March 14, 2018

This is a dream come true for 65 visually-impaired girls from marginalized communities in India, who have overcome economic and social challenges to learn judo, and are now teaching others.

Nuns, Reproductive Health Care, and Men

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | January 4, 2018

One of the important outcomes of this innovative intervention with religious leaders has been the involvement of men.

“Yes Men Can,” says India’s Kant Brothers

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | October 25, 2017

It is a difficult and risky job to raid a brothel and bring the culprits to court, but we were determined to continue.

Meet the First Transgender Judge in India

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | October 7, 2017

“Those who once taunted me about my gender stand before me with folded hands waiting for a judgment on their case.”

Equality

For India’s Threatened Koraga, a Heroine Emerges

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | June 10, 2015

As a schoolgirl she had to pick up the teacher’s shoes and stand outside the classroom. Now Sabitha Koraga is the inspirational figure in a film that in July will start being shown in government and government-aided schools.

India

India Faces Reminders of Failing Maternal Safety

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | May 11, 2015

When the World Health Assembly convenes May 18 in Geneva, public health campaigners will try to highlight something very wrong in India: the high number of poor and marginalized women still dying of preventable causes linked to childbirth.

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