With many more women entering the workplace and other economic spheres beyond the domestic ones, they are now a power to reckon with. As of 2018, women constitute 22.1% of the total labour force in India, as of 2018. The rising cost of medical treatment, the increasing lifestyle-induced diseases and…
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Summers are a real struggle, especially in a country like India where hot months dominate the calendar. The sweaty and sticky feeling leave most of us exasperated and craving for clothing pieces that are comfortable and stylish at the same time. When the temperature rises, it becomes too hot for…
With the #MeTooIndia movement gaining momentum, it’s difficult not to be disheartened. But there’s also something beautiful afoot. I’ve watched and experienced how one woman’s story of pain is empowering another woman to share her own pain and begin the process of healing. Wounded healers, that’s what we all are.…
There’s been too much in the news recently for me not to write this piece. Pawns is not a poem (I can’t write poetry). It’s just something that flowed out of the anguish I feel. Pawns Pawns Is that what we’ve been reduced to? Not fit to be born –…