Who is Mugdha Kalra? BBC’s 100 Inspiring women

Ground Report | New Delhi: Who is Mugdha Kalra; The BBC released its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2021, and two Indians are part of the list. The first woman is Mugdha Kalra, an autism-rights activist and co-founder of 'Not That Different'.

Mugdha is a media professional and communication expert with over two decades of experience in broadcast journalism. She is also the Chief Content Strategist at Backstage. FlyX is an audio social networking platform that brings together entrepreneurs, communities, content creators, and like-minded people.

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Who is Mugdha Kalra

She has co-founded Not That Different, a child-led movement that focuses on engaging and understanding "neurodiversity" along with learning to raise her non-conformist son across the autism spectrum. As the BBC reports, she is behind a unique comic strip aimed at helping all children with autism better understand and be allies to their neurodiverse friends.

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On her website, Mugdha says that she specializes in content curation, feature writing, fiction and screenplay writing, reporting, and news presenting. She says: “I am a special needs mom and to me, my baby is the best baby ever. And as long as I love and accept her and enable her to be the best I can be, I can't promise her a world that does the same. For me 'Not That Different' is the movement your child will lead to creating a better, compassionate and inclusive world for my child. We all need to understand that neurodiversity is not a barrier, but just a reflection that people have different brains in different ways."

“The pandemic has left seven billion people bound to each other through a common reality, alone in their own world, but through similar suffering. I want this shared experience to inspire more empathy for our fellow human beings,” she was quoted as saying by the public service broadcaster.

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