Sabarimala Protests – Reeking of the Stench of a Dying & Desperate Patriarchy
I distinctly remember one evening when I was still a student, probably about 16-17 years old, bored that my Dad was watching news on the TV while I itched for a new movie that was airing. Arnab Goswami had been way too loud, even for himself, as I saw the scroll mention some debate on […]
Incredible Women on #IInspire – Monica Pesswani
Monica Pesswani Co-Founder @ The Apprentice Project. “Womenpreneur 2018 in the Social Sector, AIC, NITI Ayog”. Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. – Michele Obama. A software professional, seemingly eons ago. Now, a social change-maker in the education sector. Monica Pesswani is the girl […]
Incredible Women on #IInspire – Aleena Mackar
Aleena Mackar Professional Hairstylist & Make Up Artist. Creative Director @ Sherie’s Salons, Pune. Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle Blogger @ thestylechair. Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself – Coco Chanel. Young, Vivacious, Bursting with Creative Energy & Oozing Style – that’s Aleena for you. An acclaimed stylist, fashionista and blogger from Pune, […]
Incredible Women on #IInspire – Karen Sharma
Karen Sharma The Girl Who Trekked to Everest Base Camp! Free-Spirited & Adventurous, this corporate girl has a streak of wildness in her that refuses to be tamed! Here’s me in a tete-a-tete with Karen Sharma who took her passion for travelling to unbelievable heights, literally! Seventeen Thousand Six Hundred Feet above sea level lies […]
Incredible Women on #IInspire – Snehal Kher Sontakke
Snehal Kher Sontakke Co-Founder @ Space Frame Architects, Indore. Founder @ Cubus, Turnkey Solutions, Indore. Co-Founder @ 9 Months Journey to Motherhood, Indore. “Business Leader in Innovation – Women in Business 2018” I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship – Louisa May Alcott. Entrepreneur, Architect, Interior Designer, […]
I Inspire – Stories of Incredible Women. Real Women, Real Stories.
‘Women are women’s worst enemies’, they said, and I believed. For a long long time. Then one day, I looked around and saw an entirely different story. One woman had just published her first book and was getting complimented by tons of other women. Another had begun catering from home only to be flooded with […]
Will the Kitchen Ever be an Equal Space?
A restaurant in Varanasi is called “Wife on Leave”. And if the name isn’t bad enough, its website elaborates “Man Leads, Woman Follows; to the Wife On Leave Restaurant for a romantic dinner date”. I can’t stop the cringe, no matter how many times I’ve read it. Kitchens have, for centuries, been considered a woman’s […]
What Women’s Day Really Means!
Lots of people, men and women, often confuse Women’s Day to be some sort of ‘Day For Women’ – you know, a day when women can dress up, eat out, get rest and so on. Not completely untrue 😊 But the origins of Women’s Day were not so trivial. So today, let’s get to understand […]
Gender Stereotypes at Work….Yes, They Still Exist!!
This post has been published on Women’s Web. You can find the piece at: http://www.womensweb.in/2017/11/gender-stereotypes-at-work-yes-still-exist/ Random thoughts a few days back led me to thinking how far we have come as a society in terms of gender equality in the workplace. Where once we had to rebel for equal pay irrespective of gender or even women’s […]
Women Undoing the Fight for Feminism!
This post on feminism has been published on womensweb.in. You can find it here. I was in a theatre a few months back when a documentary caught my eye, and has been disturbing me ever since. It was supposedly an attempt to make one understand the plight of women.So, It depicted how women toil in […]