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Join this Blogaton #NoRegrets and tell us about the time when you decided to take control of your life, guilt free.
Live life with no regrets! Isn’t this what we all want to do? But, the demon called guilt always gets the better of us as women. To help us remember that #Guilt-Free is the way to go, join this Blogathon #NoRegrets and tell us about the time when you decided to take control of your life, guilt free.
We live our life in schedules. For a working woman, whether single or married, it primarily revolves around juggling between work and life responsibilities. If she is a mother, then play schedules and school schedules add on. If she is passionate about an idea or a cause, then energies are spent in finding time for pursuing this passion. While we may think that the ‘busy’ness comes in phases, it actually just changes form and never really goes away.
So, when does one take charge of her own life?
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a go-to book to help us figure our way through as we fumble and stumble in life? Kaveree Bamzai’s book No Regrets: The Guilt Free Woman’s Guide to a Good Life is just that! It is not a self help book but a self-care book! We definitely do not want idealisms, rather, it is a book that talks about lessons from being a mother to lessons learnt from our own mothers; managing money to marriage; coping with pain and anger to taking ownership of our health and growing old.
An inspiring read, it also has advice from noted women achievers like Naina Lal Kidwai, Arianna Huffington, Sudha Murthy, Smriti Irani, Twinkle Khanna, Farah Khan and Sania Mirza among others.
Join us with India’s leading publishing house Harper Collins on a blogathon wherein we start the dialogue around living it up with #NoRegrets, Kaveree Bamzai’s empowering new book.
Tell us the choices that have defined you as a woman. It could be your personal choices or career choices – a decision that you made and accepted with #NoRegrets, whether or not they met with the approval of everyone else. And do tell us what got you to the stage of sticking to it, with #NoRegrets as well!
You can tell us about people, real, fictional or from the celeb world, whose advice mattered to you in this journey? When did you realize that you are not alone out there and there is a whole tribe to back you up?
As part of the Blogathon, Women’s Web and Harper Collins will be recognising 6 selected stories about women sharing their experiences and moments that led to the #NoRegrets phase in their life. The selected entries in this series are:
Deepti’s story Why Breaking The Norm To Be A Researcher Was The Best Thing I Did For My Career #NoRegrets where she talks about her unconventional career choices and the decisions that led to her success.
Namrata Singh’s realistic post I Have #NoRegrets About The Regrets That Mark My Journey To Where I Stand Now that emphasises that regrets are a part of life. Learning to live with them is actually the #NoRegrets mantra.
CS’s personal story Goodbye Toxic MIL …Much To Your Dismay, I Am Happy And Confident With #NoRegrets In My Life on how she is happy not being the sanskaari bahu.
Priya Nagesh’s poignant personal narration of navigating through loss, love and romance through her story Choiceless Choices And Yet No Regrets? 6 Women In My Life Show Me How
In our next selected post, Neeraja Ganesh shared tips for working women to strike the right work-life balance through her story Do You Suffer From The ‘Working Woman’s Guilt’? 5 Ways To Let It Go With No Regrets
And finally, a beautiful personal story of a 21 year old working professional’s work trip to Africa; Cameroon Chronicles : How A Work Trip To Africa Turned Me Into A Confident Working Professional
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People say that women are the greatest enemies of women. I vehemently disagree. It is the patriarchal mindset that makes women believe in the wrong ideology.
The entire world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, 2024. It should be a joyful day, but unfortunately, not all women are entitled to this privilege, as violence against women is at its peak. The experience of oppression pushes many women to choose freedom. As far as patriotism is concerned, feminism is not a cup of tea in this society.
What happens when a woman decides to stand up for herself? Does this world easily accept the decisions of women in this society? What inspires them to be free of the clutches of the oppression that women have faced for ages? Most of the time, women do not get the chance to decide for themselves. Their lives are always at the mercy of someone, which can be their parents, siblings, husband, or children.
In some cases, women do not feel the need to make any decisions. They are taught to obey the patriarchal system, which makes them believe that they are right. In my family, I was never taught to make decisions on my own. It was always my parents who bought dresses and all that I needed.
14 years after her last feature film Dhobi Ghat, storyteller extraordinaire comes up with her new film, Laapataa Ladies, a must watch.
*Some spoilers alert*
Every religion around the world dictates terms to women. The onus is always on women to be ‘modest’ and cover their faces and bodies so men can’t be “tempted”, rather than on men to keep their eyes where they belong and behave like civilized beings. So much so that even rape has been excused on the grounds of women eating chowmein or ‘men will be men’. I think the best Hindi movie retort to this unwanted advice on ‘akeli ladki khuli tijori ki tarah hoti hai’ (an alone woman is like an open jewellery box) came from Geet in Jab We Met – Kya aap gyan dene ke paise lete hain kyonki chillar nahin hain mere paas.
The premise of Laapataa Ladies is beautifully simple – two brides clad in the ghunghat that covers their identity get mixed up on a train. Within this Russian Doll, you get a comedy of errors, a story of getting lost, a commentary on patriarchy’s attitude towards women, a mystery, and a tale of finding oneself, all in one. Done with a mostly light touch that has you laughing and nodding along.
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