At every sexual assault case that steps into the limelight, we discuss the pain and pretend-mourn. Call our daughters and ask them to come home immediately, intimating that home is the safest place on earth. For every case that steps into the news, there are a hundred which didn’t. And the need is to call […]
As women, it is a given that they must look presentable. But, till what extent? We know women to be absolutely beautiful magical creatures who visit the magical land called salon once in a while (varying from daily to fortnight to once in a couple of months), which seem to inject magic potion into them […]
The family wakes up every morning to maa singing bhajans in her melodious nightingale-like voice. Tea is ready for everyone with their favourite biscuits, each cup made perfectly to individualistic preferences; warm milk available for the children. By the time everybody eases into dawn, she completes her aarti and smiles as she comes out of […]
“Beti padhao, beti bachao”, the words of our Honourable Prime Minister can be heard in multiple echoes, resounded time and again. What do they even mean? “Educate your daughters, save your daughters”, but are we, really? We tie their dreams in with their braids which don’t ever seem to open up, gift them bangles representative […]