In 2006, Payal Shah Karwa worked with Harish Iyer, a socio-cultural and environmental activist. As friends, they shared incidents from their lives with each other and one day, Iyer asked her to watch his interview on a TV show, where Iyer first reveals about being sexually abused by his uncle for 11 years till he turned 18. “I was shaken up. and shocked somebody could do that to a child,” says the 35-year-old who runs the Word Jockey Creative Content Studio, a content and communications consultancy. 

On hearing Iyer’s story, Karwa looked up the Internet to know more about Child Sex Abuse (CSA). The incident remained etched in her mind.