May 11 marks the National Technology Day in India. This day is celebrated to commemorate India’s achievements in technology and innovations as India successfully tested nuclear bombs in Pokharan on May 11, 1998. Today, women are walking hand in hand with men, even when it comes to technology, a field that was considered to be […]
When the nib of the pen touches the grainy white paper, in an unstoppable speed, a masterpiece is created. Doodle is a mindful exercise — it relaxes the brain, puts it in a different concentration mode and creates something beautiful. It’s therapeutic. Like every other art form, it requires dedication, talent and creativity for the […]
When I work with children through peace education, one of the most interesting things that always comes up with respect to India, is the history of resilience shown by its women. We start by looking at history textbooks, and find the women conspicuous by their absence. We see Sarojini Naidu nestled in a corner under the epithet of […]
On ‘Girls in ICT Day‘ Kirthi Jayakumar writes a letter to young women in Tech. Girls in ICT Day is a global initiative to encourage young women to consider studies and careers in information and communication technologies (ICT).It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of April. Dear you, I write this letter in […]
Patriarchy is as old as the hills. No matter what theory you use to explain it – be it a leaf out of Gerda Lerner’s book or a socio-economic understanding based on communism – it all ultimately dovetails to the truth of male dominance over all gender and sex identities that are not male. This […]
In the prelude to GES, Safecity held a panel discussion on balancing business with a social cause, and spoke to five women entrepreneurs from all over the world. The discussion saw an entrepreneur from Indonesia who makes bags out of cement material, founder of Red Elephant foundation – Kirthi Jayakumar and even Zara Huseynova, founder of […]
I woke up this morning to a slew of status messages on Facebook with the hashtag “#MeToo.” It didn’t take me long to decipher that this was a global drive to drive home the point that more women than we can count have faced sexual violence in some form or the other. I saw close […]
On September 8, 2017, I sat in a room full of amazing women at an event organized by the US Consulate General with Jennifer Iannolo of The Concordia Project. The exchange brought up insights on the many gaps in the journey of seeking to empower women. Some mentioned that the biggest gap was the loss […]
Dear James, Long, long ago, before Google was a verb, I had learned about the internet in a classroom of thirty young people in 1997, who thought that the future (specifically the year 2000) would look like something from Crystal Maze. People would be replaced by robots, have no feelings and machines would take over. […]
In Class X, I sat in the last row of my Computer Science classroom, barely able to understand a word that my teacher spoke. At some point in the class, I was dazed, and made a quiet observation that would come back fifteen years later, to haunt me. This was a classroom of about twenty-five […]
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