laxmi wants to see an end to all violence against women and their future generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. joining me now is ron devon any one of the publishers of the comic book you just saw in the report so ron how has the story of laxmi of the acid attack been received oh it's been universally received very positively we had enormous amount of readership for that for this issue and then of course the month of press attention that lecture me then and many of the other acid attack survivors has been really important because at the core of it we want to get their faces and their stories out. tell us about the other comic books you've produced there's previous shock to that is the series what else has the superhero been up to short with the first one army character priya that came out of a result of the december two thousand and twelve gang grief that happened on a bus in delhi which was covered all over the world and from there we've produced the second chapter prius meer which continues a previ

laxmi was only fifteen when she was attacked by a man seventeen years her senior. she had refused his advances so in a cruel act of revenge he attacked her and changed her life ever hundreds of acid attacks like the one suffered by laxmi a reported in india every year when the judge didn't kill me he attacked me so that i would have to live my life in agony he knew that society would accept him he did and that is same society would reject and victimize me in life. that likes me refused to be a victim and became an activist she's part of a campaign called stop the sale acid she's helped make great changes in india the sale of acid is now regulated and prosecutions of acid attacks have been made easier but she wants a complete ban comic book focuses on male and female equality worldwide she hopes children will learn about the topic in classrooms lakshmi's aim is to give girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she's also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe me my dream hasn't yet come true but there has been

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laxmi wants to see an end to violence against women and spare future generations from the suffering she and others have india had how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. this is definitely the story of many heroines and one of those joins me right now her name is monica saying she's an acid attack survivor who story also formed the basis for the comic prius she's also a fashion designer and co-founder of the mahindra sing foundation which helps victims of sexual abuse acid attacks rape and domestic violence it's good to have you on the show we appreciate you telling your story thank you so much me well it's really it's an honor to have you here and i think everyone around the world when that when they hear this story and they see you the first question they ask is when was it possible for you after the attack when did you say i can go out in public i can show my face again and it doesn't bother me anymore when did that happen. i'm an honest this bigging it took me a while because what happened is not. all the time i was preparing myself i go undergo a lot of