Mandeep Kaur: Single mom who rose from door-to-door sales to NZ’s first female Indian-origin cop
Many women give up on their childhood dreams especially if they had a failed marriage and single mother responsibilities. Not 52-year-old Mandeep Kaur. Hers is a story of grit, determination, perseverance and eventual glory: A girl who could barely speak English...
Free speech vs law of the land: The Twitter-New Delhi spat
(Our Bureau, May 28) Twitter and New Delhi are involved in a war of words over scuttling free speech amid the American company’s non-compliance of India’s new social media intermediary norms. In a statement yesterday, Twitter accused the Centre of “dangerous...
Meet Captain Anny Divya, world’s youngest Boeing 777 commander
(Suruchi Kapur-Gomes, May 28 ) Commander Anny Divya has taken life’s highs and downdrafts with equanimity. At the age of 30, the Andhra Pradesh girl became the world’s youngest woman to command the 360-seater Boeing 777 aircraft. A girl who couldn’t speak proper...