Women’s Day: Anand Mahindra, Harsh Goenka, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw back girl power

Mahindra Group chairperson and Padma awardee Anand Mahindra shared the lines of a poem And Still I Rise by the American poet and women’s rights activist Maya Angelou on the occasion of Women’s Day. He also shared a one minute 38 second-long video featuring the tennis star Serena Williams and asked women to “stay strong, just like Serena.”   Mahindra tweeted, “ “Just like moons and just like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.”- Maya Angelou”. He further said, “I stored this clip and always pull it out to inspire and remind me of the Power of a Woman. Stay strong, just like Serena.”   “I’ve had my shares of ups and downs. I’ve had many struggles. I’ve had blood clots in both my lungs at the same time [and] I lived through tragedies and controversies. People looked down on me; put me down because I didn’t look like them. I look stronger. I’ve had people look past me because of the colour of my skin,” Williams can be seen as saying in the one minute 38 second-long video shared by Mahindra.   In this video, Williams also talks about people looking away from her because she was a woman and critics claiming she will never be able to win another Grand Slam when she was only at number seven. She then says, “Now, here I stand today with 21 Grand Slam titles and I’m still going. I cannot help but think of my favourite poet, Maya Angelou.”