By the tender age of 19, Anoyara Khatun has been to the United Nations twice – the voice of young girls from poor families in an obscure corner of India. It was an incredible journey – one that pitched her from a tiny village in Bengal to New York. Hearing her, it is hard to believe Anoyara is a teen. The trappings are conspicuously missing – cellphone, pretty clothes, talk of friends, movies or career. Only once did she betray her true age. Asked what she bought for herself in New York, she shyly said, “mascara and lipstick”.

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