Twenty eight-year-old Shibshankar Deb Sharma lives in Kanchrapara with his parents. He remembers his childhood as being rather lonely. The plight of underprivileged children seen begging on the streets, doing hard manual labour and being victims of drug abuse has, thus, always disturbed him, he says. He has also been keen to work on issues relating to gender after reading about violence against women in newspaper articles. “The campaign has given me a platform to learn more and do more on the subject. I have, for instance, started to question even the subtlest of prejudices – my mother eating last after serving all the male members. I am also part of the neighbourhood effort to stop the unwelcome advances of a political leader towards young women in my locality. We signed a joint petition recently but nothing has come out of it. It is indeed difficult for an ordinary women to claim redress. Having realized this, I wish to take my role as a Change Maker seriously.”