FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT Stories
How corporate India is making queer employees feel at home: 8 first-hand accounts
Accenture, Google, Amazon, Cisco, NetApp, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Walmart: How these organisations are making their LGBTQIA+ employees feel at home
- TNN
'I had to choose between life and my home in Delhi. I chose life'
Frequent visits to the doctor, seeing my son suffer, or leaving the city…for me the choice was simple, a Delhiite says in this first-person account. But what about those who don’t have the luxury of choosing?
My family in Pakistan predicted a calamity. It came true
Rampant exploitation of nature in the name of progress and an obsession with building dams have radically increased the country’s vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather
- Ibrahim Buriro
- New York Times
Why Manhattan’s last hourly rate hotel is on sale
Its website calls it the "most sexiest" in New York City and for years it's been the sanctuary for lovers. But in a changing neighbourhood, its owner says, "a hotel like this doesn't make sense" any longer
- Alex Vadukul
- New York Times
Nothing more to lose, my life changed in a second: Gurgaon cave-in survivor
60-yr-old Arun Kumar Shrivastava was rescued from the rubble 16 hours after the ceiling of his apartment collapsed. Discharged from hospital, but still stay under medical watch, he recounts his tale of horror
- Ipsita Pati
- TNN
"Anyone who says Myanmar is a safe country to live in is lying"
A sense of fear, lifeless streets, spiralling prices, long queues at banks…life is far from normal in Yangon
- Priyanka Mukherjee
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
‘Why this privatisation is personal to me’: Reporter’s diary
My reflections on two decades of covering Air India’s sale. A short account of a tale that seemed never-ending and in which the cast of characters kept changing without any outcome
- Surojit Gupta
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
How US opened up more after 9/11 by putting itself under watch
The election of first black president, that too of Muslim heritage, with a name that had echoes of Osama – Barack Hussein Obama...hard to imagine this happening in any other country in the world
‘I won’t leave Afghanistan, I'll fight for the rights of children to study’
Matiullah Wesa, the 29-year-old founder of an NGO that focuses on schooling in Afghanistan, talks about the struggles to keep the morale up of students, parents and teachers at a time of great fear and uncertainty
- Somya Lakhani
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
What happened the day after I was sexually harassed at the Pentagon
I was terrified of jeopardising the internship I had been so excited to score and the career I was just starting. I worried about hurting the relationships I’d built in the office. I wondered, who would believe the intern?
- Maya Guzdar
- New York Times
Memories of 9/11: It was so moving, it was so alienating
I remember being left wordless by the language of good and evil, rather than cause and effect
I invested in cryptocurrency in 2017. Here's what I've learned
An advocate looks back at how he got bitten by the ‘bitcoin bug’, the highs and lows that come with investing in crypto and the big takeaways from it
A journey through Kabul on the day of the fall
Correspondent who grew up in the Afghan capital returned to the US before the Taliban’s victory, taking in the end of one era and the fearful start of another
- Mujib Mashal
- NYT News Service
Malala Yousafzai: I survived the Taliban. I fear for my Afghan sisters
In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is in imminent danger
- Malala Yousafzai
- NYT News Service
Trade, diplomacy, Bollywood: Memories of one day in Kabul
In 2002, Afghanistan was a country full of hope that its war-ravaged past was behind it. Even a one-day trip as part of a trade delegation showed how hopeful the people and government were then
- Malini Goyal
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
‘Memories of Moscow came flooding back’
Olympic gold-winning hockey captain says Tokyo bronze thriller was like final against Spain in 1980
- TNN
Covid made companies focus more on employee happiness
An executive reflects on how the pandemic changed his outlook and the lessons it gave him for his personal and professional life