On March 16, at a storytelling event in Mumbai, four actors narrated the personal stories of four women survivors of a practice called khatna. A form of ritualistic female genital circumcision that ...
Samina, a survivor, read about female genital mutilation, commonly understood as khatna, prevelant in the Bohra community through an article. It was only then that she realized an ordeal of the past ...
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COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When her daughter turned seven, and it was time for the "khatna" - a female genital mutilation (FGM) ritual - a close friend advised Naqiyah to try the butter ...
Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist, activist and psychotherapist of Indian ancestry. Her novels include All Inclusive and Six Metres of Pavement. Her latest is Seven, a novel that explores the ...
Mumbai: In an attempt to highlight and bring to life the mental and physical trauma Dawoodi Bohra women are subjected to with khatna, or genital cutting, theatre personalities and actors Dolly Thakore ...