Yesterday, this paper ran a front page report about a sex worker's daughter, Sheetal Jain. Sheetal was born to a sex worker in Kamathipura, and since she was a child, she was taught that a sex worker’s daughter could end up only in the flesh trade. She had also lived most of her life in the red-light district of Kamathipura.

Yet, the spunky teenager never let adversity cow her down. Thanks to an NGO called Kranti that discovered her, Sheetal tapped into her latent talent for music, practicing drumming and never gave up dreaming big. With the help of the NGO, she applied for a year-long diploma to the US Drum School in Washington DC; was selected for it, and is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime on September 16.