I was the first born.
And as far back as I can remember, I made my parents very proud and happy ninety-nine percent of the time.
Okay, slight exaggerations of personal achievements are allowed from time to time don't you think?
My brother was born as few years later and even then, nothing changed for me.
We were both given equal opportunities and I want to emphasize this, I want to really emphasize this for you because I don't think a lot of people might understand that being equal might seem very normal but where I come from, India, and a lot of developing counties  around the world, more often than not, this is an exception.
It's actually a privilage.
My first experience of the glaring disparity between boys and girls came at a very very young age I grew up in a middle class family with extremely philanthropic parents who constantly reminded me and my brother how lucky we were and how giving back to the less fortunate was not a choice,  it was a way of life.
Simple.
I was seven or eight years old when my parents started taking me on these visits in a travelling clinic to developing communities around and villages around the city that we lived in called Bareilly.
We were packed into this ambulance and my parents would provide free medical care to people who couldn't afford it.