When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2008, at the age of 24, all I wanted to know was whether I would be all right. It was the first time I had ever heard about the condition, and many people around me simply believed that I had been cursed. Even though …
Flight Cadets Mohana Singh, Avani Chaturvedi, and Bhawana Kanth broke a major barrier last week when they became the first women fighter pilots of the Indian Air Force. A few days ago, Hillary Clinton breached another glass ceiling by becoming the first female Presidential nominee in the United States, representing the Democratic Party. Every day, women are …
Almost four years ago, I made the biggest decision of my life and certainly one of the riskiest. I quit my corporate job in the aviation industry where I had worked for close to two decades. Why? I decided to pursue a dream of giving back to society. I wanted to empower women and girls …
“Until I met the community health worker Penina, I did not know that one can have sex and not get pregnant,” said Wanjiru, a participant of the Tupange Family Planning program. Wanjiru is not different from many women living in the slums of Nairobi. Women in these communities believe that they have no control over whether or …
By a wafer-thin margin of 1.2 million votes, Britain last week voted to exit the European Union. The ongoing tussle between “Euroscepticism” and “Europhoria” seemed to have tilted in favour of the former. The knock-on effects of the Brexit are just beginning to crystallize and, in truth, there is no telling whether the worst of …