My editor warned me to be prepared to answer the question “why did you write this book?” once I published Fast Forward to Hope. I thought this would be an easy essay for me to pen as I clearly know the answer intrinsically. Expressing it in writing proved harder as I started and stopped doing it more than a few times.
Fast Forward to Hope: Choosing to Build the Power of Self recounts Indira’s journey from fear to hope as she struggled to face various challenges, particularly related to her advanced breast cancer diagnosis.
I have been wondering why it is harder this year. Why am I letting myself feel uncertain? I don’t want to squash the fears. I want to let them out. I feel like I will exhale fully tomorrow when I make it to fourteen years.
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Indira Kaur Ahluwalia was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer with and bone metastasis in April 2007. Summing up her journey, she says, "I tried, and I am grateful for every experience".
In the fifth installment of PYXERA Global’s webinar series ‘Rhetoric to Action: Dismantling Structural Racism through Tri-Sector Approaches', Fadzi Whande, Senior Diversity & Inclusion Adviser, Executive Direction and Management, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Indira Ahluwalia, Founder and President, KAUR Strategies LLC joined Renay Loper, VP Program Innovation as they discussed how the colonial roots of international development are grounded in racism, and more importantly, how individuals across sectors can recognize and disrupt its continuation.
On this episode of First Paso, author and cancer survivor Indira Kaur Ahluwalia shares what it is like to live life with seemingly conflicting thoughts and emotions. When have you lived with a paradox of emotions and thoughts?
Listen as Indira breaks down how to manage fighting through Stage IV breast cancer with fear and hope working together.
Host Smita Tharoor asks guests from around the world to share their story and to reflect on their life experiences with unconscious bias.
A Sikh woman who migrated to the United States from India in 1984, Indira shares her unique perspective on social and economic development initiatives around the world. In this episode, she discusses her views on the role that identity should play in program design for international development and the challenges and opportunities she has encountered along her career journey.
