Shweta Katti (L) and her mother Vandana, pictured in Mumbai, on July 30, 2013

Shweta Katti (L) and her mother Vandana, pictured at a suburbun railway station in Mumbai, on July 30, 2013. Katti, 18, grew up in Mumbai’s red-light district facing poverty and sexual abuse but, has overcome the odds to win a scholarship to study in New York, at the liberal arts Bard College, where she hopes to read psychology.