Apne Aap featured in Kristof and WuDunn’s Half the Sky

“Ruchira is a hearty, loquacious woman with brown skin, black hair and an infectious manner. She grew up in Kolkata, India – the raucous city formerly known as Calcutta – and worked for many years as a journalist for the BBC, the Telegraph and the Sunday Observer of London, as well as for the U.N. Ruchira came from a prosperous middle-class family with a social conscience and a reverence for Mahatma Gandhi. …Ruchira had strong connections with national police officials and knew the law far better than the police themselves. And Ruchira can be every bit as intimidating as any brothel-owner. …Ruchira Gupta and her staff at Apne Aap are part of a growing abolitionist movement that is forming around the world and having a real impact on sex slavery.” Nicholas Kristoff