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Manages supply chain teams in Intel Corp. Blogger, writer and poet. Founder and Director Her Rights (www.herrights.website). Contributor Huffington Post US, The Logical Indian. Poetry and fiction published in several US, UK and Indian literary magazines including honorable mention for The Glimmer Train. Significant mention anthologies: Defiant Dreams with Readomania (Oprah list 2.0), The Best Asian Short Stories with Kitaab Singapore. Previous affiliations: Brookhaven National Laboratories, The Cornell University, IIT Kanpur and Presidency College, Kolkata. Upcoming works: Twilight's Children with Readomania in partnership with Govt. of India.
Activist Shehla Rashid recently announced that she was deactivating her Twitter due to the toxicity of many on it. We need to understand that the hate we direct at some women, will one day have repercussions for all of us.
How can we ensure that the #MeToo movement leads to lasting change and not just short-lived outrage? Here are some thoughts on truly making a sustainable mindset change.
The author opens up about her mental issues and how she manages it. It's her courage manifesto to fellow sufferers.
While we push for women's equality so that working or being a homemaker should be choice, we need to push for a similar choice for men too. That's true feminism.
Many still do not understand what postpartum depression is, and seem to think that it happens when women are in bad marriages or don't want to have a child. This is certainly not true!
For years we have been clamouring for stronger punishment for rape, including the death penalty. Here's a closer look at the multi-faceted approach needed.
Involved parenting is not about being paranoid about your child. But yes, it does mean being fully aware of what is going on in your child's life.
The #MeToo movement brought down many powerful men internationally over the last months. So why are some women distancing themselves?
Bollywood style 'love' is toxic, unacceptable, and encroaches upon a woman's right to consent. Criminalisation of stalking is imperative.
Our path to gender equality is muddy; until we acknowledge that men and women have far more in common and start raising our boys and girls in a truly equal manner.
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