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Since actress Shwetha Menon chose to have the delivery of her child filmed, many opinions and comments have surfaced. Sruthi discusses the “controversy” in Shwetha Menon, Her Child Birth and the Moral Mafia.
The Delhi Metro has gained Rs. 32 lakh from fines on men traveling in Ladies’ Only compartments; Indian Homemaker writes about the reasons why many men do this.
France is moving towards legalising gay marriage and adoption of children by homosexual couples. The government is now replacing the words “mother” and “father” on official forms with the gender-neutral “parents”.
Kalpana Sharma writes that though the National Commission for Women in India is flawed, we shouldn’t give up on it and disband it. Instead, it needs to be debated and held accountable to its original mandate.
Round 2 of the Violence Against Women Awareness Month has started! Head over to the official blog to find news, articles and columns about gender-specific violence in India.
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He said that he needed sometime to himself. I waited for him as any other woman would have done, and I gave him his space, I didn't want to be the clingy one.
Trigger Warning: This deals with mental trauma and depression, and may be triggering for survivors.
I am someone who believes in honesty and trust, I trust people easily and I think most of the times this habit of mine turns into bane.
This is a story of how a matrimonial website service turned into a nightmare for me, already traumatized by the two relationships I’ve had. It’s a story for every woman who lives her life on the principles of honesty and trust.
And when she enters the bedroom, she sees her husband's towel lying on the bed, his underwear thrown about in their bathroom. She rolls her eyes, sighs and picks it up to put in the laundry bag.
Vasudha, age 28 – is an excellent dancer, writer, podcaster and a mandala artist. She is talented young woman, a go getter and wouldn’t bat an eyelid if she had to try anything new. She would go head on with it. Everyone knew Vasudha as this cheerful and pretty young lady.
Except when marriage changed everything she knew. Since she was always outdoors, whether for office or for travelling for her dance shows, Vasudha didn’t know how to cook well.
Going by her in-laws definition of cooking – she had to know how to cook any dishes they mentioned. Till then Vasudha didn’t know that learning to cook was similar to getting an educational qualification. As soon as she entered the household after her engagement, nobody was interested what she excelled at, everybody wanted to know – what dishes she knew how to cook.