The charity calendar of 2017, by three Atlantans PurseN CEO Hardeep Melamed, the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Fulton County office of the Chairman, Board of Commissioners Dr. Nazeera Dawood and the green-eyed cover role model Cara E. Yar Khan has powerful, bold and inspirational women who are internationally known or noteworthy.
The charity calendar 2017 includes, The Houston University President / Chancellor Dr. Renu Khator and the winner of the Arjun Award, or what is the equivalent to the “Sports Hall of Fame” Roopa Unnikrishnan.
“What an incredible tour de force! Congratulations on your vision and beautiful result,” wrote role model Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia in an email to the Saris to Suits Founder Patti Tripathi. “It’s sure to inspire many hearts and minds. It made me teary to look through it. It’s optimistic and strong and beautiful. Thank you so much for including me in this project.”
“Truth is bitter and has set me free. After all these years, I now have the inner strength to take the challenge of creating better environments for others because of what I endured. This is the legacy I want to leave behind. Saris to Suits is giving a voice to the remarkable women and setting many free from the stigmatized women issues,” Activist Dr. Nazeera Dawood said.
“I have been especially proud to have been born in Hyderabad and raised in the diaspora, to an Indian family that encourages its daughters to be strong, highly educated, competitive in sports, socially engaged, financially independent and successful. The bar has always been high and I have risen to the occasion with the UN, wanting to make my father especially, proud of me,” said Cara E. Yar Khan, who was diagnosed with HIBM at the age of 30. “We all had to learn how to live with a disability and fend off the cultural taboos of being a woman with a disability that do persist with quite a vengeance. Being recognized by Saris to Suits is a testament to how far we as Indians and South Asians have come.”
“My physicist father and young mother came to the country carrying three suitcases and three children. My two brothers and I shared one bedroom until I went to the University of Notre Dame. That’s when they decided to make a home in America. My brothers are extraordinarily successful, well-educated and kind, thanks to our devoted non-materialistic young Mother. Sadly, she passed away at age 56 but we all give back in one way or another our new country and to the Mother land in honor of her memory,” said Saris to Suits founder Patti Tripathi.
“Saris to Suits came into being because of my personal and professional journey, hurdles and successes in the US.”
By Premji
