Privilege doesn't give
you your voice.
You have to find it.
"I grew up with every advantage and still spent two decades figuring out who I actually was. That journey is exactly why Anaya exists."
I'm Akrati, Indian, born and raised in Abu Dhabi, Marwadi at heart. My upbringing was one of affluence and privilege. I had access to the best schools, the best opportunities, a life most people only dream of. By every external measure, I had everything.
And yet. My 20s and 30s were spent doing the hardest work I've ever done: finding my own voice. Therapy. Travel that cracked open my assumptions. Hitting walls I didn't expect to hit. Slowly unlearning the scripts I had absorbed without ever choosing them.
If I — with all my privilege — had to fight that hard to find myself, what does it mean for girls who have none of it? Girls who grow up with far less freedom, far less safety, far less space to even ask the question: what do I want?
That question became impossible to ignore. In 2025, something clicked. I stopped waiting for the perfect moment and started building. Anaya was born, named from three languages, each one pointing at the same truth: care, compassion, and the belief that something greater is possible.
We start in India. We will go wherever the need is greatest. And we will walk with girls until they can stand, fully and freely, in the life they choose for themselves.