Sunaina Khaylar: My story on International Women's Day

From as little as age three, I've been very aware of how ‘different' my name is to all my friends and the people around me. Except at that little age, I was very proud of my name, telling my nursery teacher, ‘My name isn't Sunaina, it's Sunaina Kaur Khaylar'. The sass. However, as I grew older, I began to notice how uncomfortable it was making me feel, anticipating people saying it wrong. Particularly at school when we would have a supply teacher, and the absolute dread that would come over me, thinking of them having to read my name out loud from the register, in front of the whole clas...