Kirthi Jayakumar

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Kirthi Jayakumar

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Kirthi is a feminist researcher and lawyer. She works at the cross-section of gender, peace, justice, and security. She founded and runs The Gender Security Project and created Saahas, an app for survivors of gender-based violence.

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“And maybe, just maybe, there is hope, after all.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“She walked up to the window. It was raining.
The heavens were grieving, too.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“Death to the attacker was a yardstick of success, to the media person and the government, was a mere statistic. But to her, and countless other people, death had a name, a face and a story, and a countless number of emotions. And to each, theirs was the most painful.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

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“Days rolled into weeks, weeks into months. Our realities were one. We tried, though. We tried to brave it through. Why, I don’t know. We had the power to release ourselves from the shackles that held us, but we didn’t. Were we there for each other, so we didn’t leave one to fend for itself alone? Or were we there because we were just there? I don’t know.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“But those moments I spent with her on the terrace... I will never forget them. We played like little girls. We saw colours come vividly to life before us. We joked. We laughed. We were us. In those moments when we threw mugfulls of water into the open space, I saw that we were two faces to one soul. She, bucolic. I, urban. She, conventional. I, modern. She, her. I, me. Sisters, the members of a sorority of pain. But the problems were one, real, single.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“When hope crashes, almost immediately, a future smashes into smithereens- into a thousand broken mirror pieces, while you're left with your pallid, hopeless eyes staring back at you. You hear no sound as the tiny splinters fall into the soulless depths of despair. Somewhere so deep, a chasm akin to a black-hole, that nothing that goes in can ever be brought back. Not even your dreams. Or hopes.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“If it was in Grief, it was philosophy, if in joy, it was madness. Just the way a philandering flame could be for warmth, or for arson. My hands clutch my stomach, as wave after wave kicked my feet.”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

“She felt no pain, the men in surgical scrubs said, but how could they know?
Did they realize that another heart bled as she fought for life?
Did they realize the invisible cord that connected her to me, was still firmly in place despite the only physical one being cut up?
Or did they see those dreams as she did- those years of school, college, fun, happiness and childlike love that would never happen, ever, between them?
Did they know, I wanted to call her Hope?”
Kirthi Jayakumar, Stories of Hope

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