Navya Naveli Nanda opens up about facing mansplaining, says she needs to prove herself

Navya Naveli Nanda is not just the granddaughter of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan, but also an entrepreneur who works in the health sector. After graduating from New York's Fordham University in 2020, she started Aara Health, an online platform which discusses health issues and more. On Tuesday, Navya and Aara Health co-founders Pragya Saboo, Ahilya Mehta and Mallika Sahney collaborated for an online session, where they talked about their experiences as women in a male-dominated society, being undermined and mansplained and more.

During the Instagram live session, Navya Naveli Nanda talked about how she has to constantly prove herself in a male-dominated world. She said, "So whenever we are put in the spotlight, talking to a vendor or a doctor, all of us have been in situations where we are talking to somebody, most likely a man, who is mansplaining and talking to us in a very condescending manner."

Navya also talked about how people often perceive her. She said, "When you are meeting new people for work and talking to them, there is always that...Not worry of what they are going to think of you but more internal, where I feel like, Oh, we need to prove ourselves. Especially because in the space that we are in, it is largely dominated by men."