Samina, a survivor, read about female genital mutilation, commonly understood as khatna, prevelant in the Bohra community through an article. It was only then that she realized an ordeal of the past ...

On March 16, at a storytelling event in Mumbai, four actors narrated the personal stories of four women survivors of a practice called khatna. A form of ritualistic female genital circumcision that ...

The Dawoodi Bohra community has long been divided over the practice of khatna (Female Genital Mutilation), with constant internal strife over its propriety. Now, it may have to take a stand with the ...

Mumbai: In the face of a virtual firestorm on the issue of female circumcision or khatna within the Dawoodi Bohra community in the past few months, around 21 Bohra men, spanning Mumbai, Pune, Udaipur, ...

The Hindu contacted the office of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin and asked for the leader’s response to the accusations of the activists and reformers. The Syedna’s spokesperson declined to comment, but ...

Mumbai: The arrest of Detroit-based emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and two others in connection with female genital mutilation (FGM) of two minor girls in the United States has once ...

"I am a father and I am against khatna,” reads a sign Yusuf holds over his face in a picture attached to a blog post. Since last year, brave Dawoodi Bohras have been breaking the silence surrounding ...

The fatwa given during the Zikra majlis by Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin in favour of female circumcision dug up the wound that still exists in my heart and eventually made me write this post. Listening ...