A very good evening to all of you. As doctors, you are trained to save lives, to manage symptoms, to take some high impact decisions under pressure and that too quickly. But no textbook in this world ever taught me to actually take care of an elderly mother who cries in pain and gets repeatedly admitted for her minor ailments to other hospitals.Every visit leaving her more disoriented, more withdrawn. No classroom in 12 years of training ever taught me to take care of that son who flies in late from another ...

Food is something we all have in common. After all, we all need to eat, right. Which sounds pretty simple, but it isn't.Food is so much more than nutrition. It's culture. It's identity. It's rooted in our memories. It's something deeply connected to our humanity.But food is also power too because unfortunately for many people they hold no power over what they eat or how they access food. They don't have a choice. I first learned about power as a chef who transitioned from working in restaurants to now runni ...

This is my favorite failure. Almost 10 years ago, I launched a petition to reduce the ton tax in Luxmbbo. It went nowhere. Nowhere.Not enough signatures, no political traction, honestly a total flop. But when you are an activist, you have to trust the process, right. Look behind the horizon because four years later, even without this petition, the top tax did drop.It dropped because hundreds of conversation followed because the the topic refused to die because we refused to shut up because we insisted becau ...

I'm a mother of a three and a half yearear-old. And when we conceive, you know, what do we say? What do we pray for? What does our spouse, our family, you know, what do they pray for? A healthy baby. What does a healthy baby mean? What does a healthy baby mean? Anyone? A baby without a disability? Correct. The problem is not that there are 70 million persons with disability in India and over a billion across the world. That's not the problem. That statistics is not the problem. You know what the problem is? ...

Am I audible. Yes. How are we feeling.A little strange. I know it's not every day that you see a man, an overgrown man walking in a sari on the stage. Um, I'm Pushbot Sen. I'm 30 years old.Mentally, I am Zenaya. In reality, I'm Janea. I work as a fashion creative director.Long story short, I make fashion films for brands. Uh they're not your regular at films. They have a little bit of story.I'm extremely technologically challenged, so I don't know. Uh I couldn't uh play them here. I couldn't put them on my ...

When it comes to homelessness, we've been asking ourselves the wrong question for a long time. We've asked, "How do we solve homelessness. " But what if the real question is, "How do we return people to themselves. " Because if we're honest, we've built housing. But what we haven't built were places where people can be returned to themselves with stability, healing, and belonging. The state of homelessness in the United States is dire. Today, we have over 770,000 people experiencing homelessness in the Unit ...

First of all, I just want to say that English is not my native language. So, please bear with me and please travel with this story. This is very important story for thousands of women.Each of us identifies with a name. A name which was specially given to us with love at our birth. It's what our teachers call us. It's on our ID card. And it even shows up on our to go coffee.But what if that name was erased at a very young age. When young girl or woman is married and then her name is replaced with a label, on ...

[music] [music] [applause] Have you ever looked at something so ordinary that your mind almost skipped over it. We all do. We overlook the familiar.We underestimate what's simple. And we dismiss what seems to be common. But one day that ordinary thing for me was Kong Kong.Just a vegetable, cheap, common, nothing special. That's what I thought. But one day I caught myself asking what if it's ordinary is because no one bothered to look closer.And that question never left me. I'm frank. I never meant to be the ...

[applause] Do you know what an orphanage sounds like. When every baby is fed and they're changed and they're medically cared for, but they're not held or nurtured or emotionally seen. silence, not peace, but a haunting quiet.In early orphanages where there were too many babies and not enough caretakers, babies who cried and received no response eventually stopped crying altogether. Their medical needs were met, but their need to be seen was not. Our humanity requires reading in the gaze of one another.Witho ...

Once upon a time, many years ago from today, there lived a young girl who believed in everything magical. magical. So, here I am just coming back from school and it was pouring that afternoon and those little eyes, those twinkling eyes which were wondering here and there glimpsed upon this one auntie, old auntie on the road. I went back home that day. I got a bag, an oversized bag, filled it with every possible goodie that I had, caught hold of an umbrella and told my mother, "Take me, take me to that aunti ...