Varisha Tariq
Varisha Tariq is a recent undergraduate from Ashoka University and she likes reading about politics and deconstructing gender and patriarchy. She aspires to be a writer, business-owner, foreign diplomat and Prime Minister of India all at once although she is currently running an NGO in Lucknow, focused on the education and empowerment of women.
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