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 […]
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 […]
Thank You Mother, For Never Teaching Me To Sacrifice Because I am a Woman!
A writing prompt recently challenged me to write on “A Woman I Admire”. After putting much thought into it, weighing the pros and cons of writing on someone personal or someone I had just heard of, I finally made up my mind. I would probably be taking a risk here, of sounding ‘cliched’ if I told you who […]
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 […]