Stories of Unconscious Bias

"I was at an international conference and had a very interesting conversation with one of the speakers who had walked up to my table. But when I met him outside at the end of the conference,  he was shocked with disbelief on his face when he saw me walking with a caliper because he had no idea that I had a disability."

Neena Bhandari has been a career journalist for over three decades. She has worked in India, the UK and Australia, writing on a range of issues from Health and Science to Environment and Development, gender and human rights to travel and indigenous issues.