by Sarika | Mar 8, 2021 | BD Voice, Coaching, Empowerment, Gender, Leadership, Women Matters
The world has gone through an unprecedented crisis last year. Despite the progress in women\’s issues in recent decades, the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated existing disparities, causing a reversion to traditional gender roles and with possible long-lasting...
by Sarika | Feb 2, 2021 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Gender, Inclusion, Inclusion Champions, Inclusion Matters, Leadership, Mentoring Matters, Personal Development, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters
2020 was a year that has tested our society like few others in recent memory, it’s safe to say that many of us are looking forward to putting this year behind us. We have navigated through incredibly turbulent times and we are not out of them yet, but there does seem...
by Sarika | Jan 2, 2021 | BD Voice, Professional Development
While it was a difficult year for most of us, I believe that 2020 is also a year of Resilience! When I look back and reflect on all that I learned over the past year, I value all the lessons it has taught us. Go with the flow: At the end of 2019, I decided to take up...
by Sarika | Nov 15, 2018 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Inclusion, Inclusion Matters, Leadership, Professional Development
This festive week, I was planning to upgrade my television to smart TV and my friends suggested to check out the online deals. Being a fan of amazon online, the app kept tempting me with the uber expensive new iphone as well. Similarly, Netflix keeps suggesting my...
by Sarika | Nov 1, 2018 | BD Voice, Gender, Inclusion, Inclusion Champions, Inclusion Matters, Leadership, Woman of Influence, Women Matters
“Mom, we won the match!” shouted my 12-year-old son as he got home from school. “Akshi was too cool. She took the last goal in the last 4 minutes to spare”. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him raving about his teammate who is a girl playing in his school soccer...
by Sarika | Aug 31, 2018 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Every Day Heroes, Gender, Inclusion Matters, Safety, Woman of Influence, Women Matters
For past few days, I had been deeply disturbed by the horrific stories of young girls being raped by the very people who were supposed to be their guardians in the shelter. More disturbing was the fact that many people knew about this, in fact, heard their screams but...