Celebrating International Girl Child Day – How are we faring in reality?

October 11 is celebrated as International Girl Child Day. The day was declared by the United Nations to amplify the voices of young girls around the world and increase awareness of issues faced by them. I was not aware of any such special day until social media started overflowing with parents sharing snaps with their daughters. The zeal is overwhelming. But is the awareness limited to the digital world only? What about the real world?

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Sreeparna Sen

Books & Writing | Culture & Entertainment | Parenting & Childcare

Sreeparna Sen is a Computer Engineer, working in a Bank and finds her solace in writing. When she is not dealing with the loan documents, you can mostly find her nose in a book or Facebook. She has authored the book Tales of Wizardencil and is a part of more than 10 anthologies including an international project Until Dawn. To name a few other published anthologies are Hawk’s Nest, Macabre Tales, Blood Runs Cold, Route 13 – Highway to Hell, Love in Trying Times, Airavata and Sharing Lipstick. Her blogs have been featured in pages like Momspresso, Women’s Web and Mom Store. She has recently published her first non-fiction book Tilottama At A Glance about the city of joy, Kolkata. Sreeparna frequently writes in her blog Wizardencil By Sreeparna Sen and manages a Facebook page with the same name, where you can find stories written both in English and Bengali. You can follow her website at www.wizardencil.com.

Celebrating International Girl Child Day – How are we faring in reality?

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