Peony Hirwani
Bio:
Peony Hirwani is a freelance journalist and a rap and hip-hop enthusiast. She writes political and culture features for The Independent, Business Insider, and Harper's Bazaar.
When Padma Thinles was 11 years old, he lived in a city called Leh, in the northern Indian territory of Ladakh, on the Western side of the Himalayas. Then, it was a small village with streams brimming with freshwater. Now, “forget the streams,” said Thinles, who is now 21 and still lives in the region.
In Rural Tamil Nadu, Child Marriage Was Already Rampant. Then Came the Pandemic.















