Iran protesters describe personal toll of crackdown

Soroush Negahdari,BBC Monitoringand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,BBC Persian WANA via REUTERS Iranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January “My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.” For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this…

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Woman quits dream job to start her own company, shares roadblocks she encountered along the way; ‘Parents asked, ‘Have you lost your mind?’ |

Leaving something that is stable, and comfortable is never easy, yet some things need to be left behind, for a bigger purpose. Meenal Goel, Founder & Educator, having formerly worked with Deloitte, KPMG, recently took to her Linkedin profile to reveal that she quit her ₹28L/year job in 2023 to start her own company. And…

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