New Delhi : Disfigured beyond recognition in a terrible acid attack, 26-year-old Laxmi who goes by a single name has now turned a mother with her partner, a social activist who works for the welfare of acid attack victims.
Laxmi has given her seven-month-old daughter the adorable name ‘Pihu’ and the baby, like her mother, will also sport a single name.
For somebody who has been confronted with stares and often times with hostility whenever she appeared in public, finding love and a soulmate seemed to be a hopeless task right up to the time she met Aloke Dixit, 28, with whom she now runs the Stop Acid Attack Campaign.
The couple, who have been living in together say they wanted some time to introduce their baby to the world.
“For the initial six to seven months we needed time for the baby and also for us. We wanted to relax. Also, because of our busy schedule we were not able to bring Pihu in front of the world. But we finally thought of introducing her to others,” Laxmi said.
She was attacked with acid in 2005 in a busy marketplace, when she was only 16 years old, by a man more than twice her age, whose advances she rejected.
