Storytelling with Sahiyo: Shobita Dhulipala reads Insiya's female genital cutting story

Shobita Dhulipala, a promising actress from India's film industry, reads out 34-year-old Insiya's story.
On March 16, 2018, Sahiyo partnered with Women in Film and Television International India to organise its first-ever on-ground storytelling event in Mumbai, India. The event, titled “Storytelling with Sahiyo”, featured four critically-acclaimed Indian film actors who performed narrative readings of the personal stories of four Female Genital Cutting survivors. The event was led and hosted by Sahiyo co-founder Insia Dariwala, along with WIFT founder Petrina D’Rozario.
The actors - Rasika Dugal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Plabita Borthakur and Dolly Thakore - read the stories of survivors Fatema, Insiya, Samina and an anonymous mother who regrets getting her daughter cut. The stories highlighted the different ways in which FGC affects women who are cut and the difficult decisions that mothers often have to make when they are caught between tradition and the desire to protect their daughters.
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