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Is there a perfect parenting style or the ideal childhood?Should we apply exclusive labels to people and movements?Read this edition of our weekly posts.
Is there a perfect parenting style or the ideal childhood? Should we apply exclusive labels to people and movements? Read this edition of our weekly posts to know.
Because I’m not just a mother – A blogger’s quest for her niche.
“Joining an institution that was by definition for the privileged, in terms of language, class, opportunity, was no protection against discrimination.” – Nilanjana writes on the lessons in patriarchy from an alma mater.
“Victim blaming, something that’s so ingrained into the way society talks about sexual violence that we have to listen to people discussing rape in terms of whether it’s “rape rape” or one of those lesser types of rape where it’s committed by a partner, or if a woman “flirted” with her attacker.” – The skewed dialectics of rape.
“Women’s rights will always be at the heart of the feminist movement yes, but more importantly it is human rights which are at its core.” – Lucy Fenner on why feminism brooks no definitions.
The Skeptic Geek on the folly of lamenting the loss of childhood.
“I might be a feminist who believes women can do it all alone – but I would feel handicapped without P.” – On travelling solo.
Clothes maketh the man. Should they make chastity? An incisive post from Priya Alika Elias.
Media creates the mommy wars.
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If her MIL had accepted her with some affection, wouldn't they have built a mutually happier relationship by now?
The incident took place ten years ago.
Smita could visit her mother only in summers when her daughter had school holidays. Her daughter also enjoyed meeting her Nani, and both of them had done their reservations for a week. A month before their visit, her husband told her, “My mom is coming for 4-5 months!”
Smita shuddered. She knew the repercussions. She would have to hear sarcastic comments from her mother-in-law for visiting her mother. She may make these comments directly only a bit, but her servants would be flooded with the words, “How horrible she is! She leaves me and goes!”
Are we so swayed by star power and the 'entertainment' quotient of cinema that satisfies our carnal instincts that we choose to ignore our own subconscious mind which always knows what is right and what is wrong?
Trigger Warning: This has graphic descriptions of violence and may be triggering to survivors and victims of violence.
Do you remember your first exposure to an extremely violent act or the aftermath of a violent act?
I am pretty sure for most of us it would be through cinema. But I remember very vividly my first exposure to aftermath of an unbelievably grotesque violent act in real life. It was as a student at a Dental College and Hospital.
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