Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary
Welcome to Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary, the award-winning journalist and host of this twice-nominated podcast.
Positive Solace is a sanctuary for honest conversations, quiet transformation, and intentional healing. Born in a moment of global stillness in 2020, this space was created to offer light in uncertainty, a place for reflection, connection, and renewal.
Here, vulnerability is not weakness but a doorway. Each unscripted episode welcomes voices from across cultures and experiences, sharing stories rich with wisdom, resilience, and heart. Blending warmth with depth, this is where comfort meets clarity and insight never overwhelms.
Rooted in purpose, Positive Solace challenges narratives and stereotypes while uplifting a community working toward a more inclusive, conscious world.
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Positive Solace with Attika Choudhary
Indian Village Girl gets to Harvard with Seema Kumari
In this instalment of “Positive Solace: Women of Vision - Indian Village Girl gets to Havard", Attika meets Seema Kumari, a 17-year-old, who comes from the village of Dahu in Northeast India.
Young girls in Dahu and the Jharkhand region of India face unimaginable challenges – education is very limited, and not seen as a priority for young women. As a result of this, over 50% of young women in the State drop out early or do not attend school at all, and are at extreme risk of human trafficking.
They are likely to end up in a forced marriage when they are not even 12 years old!
In 2012, Seema joined the YUWA Academy: an organisation that aims to shield young women from such dismal futures.
Girls who enrol with YUWA (which translates as “Youth” in Hindi) create their own soccer teams and are mentored each week.
This adventure has taken Seema around the world – from training as a football coach with Real Sociedad in Spain, to spending summers studying at Washington University in the United States.
Thanks to YUWA and Seema’s newly boosted confidence, her determination and inner strength - she has just been accepted into Harvard University with a scholarship to study Social Studies. Harvard is one of the most prestigious universities in the world, with a historically low acceptance rate of people outside the USA. This also makes Seema the first woman in her district to receive a university education.
Seema speaks to Attika about just how challenging life has been up to now, how supportive her family have been of her endeavours, and how excited she is for the future.
Find out more about YUWA and the work they do: https://www.yuwa-india.org/
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