–The Guardian.
I found this very touching. The movie Tezaab was not just entertainment after all. Many people (mostly women and many of them in South Asia) today live a life because of the circumstances they have no control of.
Seventeen-year-old Neela Khatunis is one of more than 2,700 victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh over the past 10 years. ‘My husband was angry … because he claimed a dowry but my family couldn’t provide one,’ she says. ‘His plan was to sell me in Saudi Arabia – when I refused he threw acid on me then he fled’
For more pictures and information on victims of acids, see The Guardian‘s page.