"Don't Be Me" - the Three Words That Raised Me | Pallavi Verma | TEDxGateway GIS

"Don't Be Me" - the Three Words That Raised Me | Pallavi Verma | TEDxGateway GIS

Her mother said three words — Don't. Be. Me. — and Pallavi Verma spent years obeying them, running from tradition, from the saree worn at 5am, from every role her mother had carried without being asked. In this spoken word performance, the writer and PenPal founder traces how she slowly realised her mother had not been