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Refusing To Be Ashamed After Rape

After Sohaila Abdulali was raped in Mumbai, she was determined not to let it define her.

In the summer of 1980 Sohaila Abdulali was out walking in the hills in Mumbai with a friend when she was attacked and raped by a group of four men. Sohaila was just 17 at the time, but she refused to be ashamed by what had happened to her. She wrote a powerful article for an Indian women's magazine describing her experience. Sohaila moved to America and became a successful author. Many years later those words she wrote would go on to have a profound effect and inspire many others to share their stories.

Image: Sohaila Abdulali
Credit: Tom Unger

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