Category Archives: Freedom

Once A Nightmare

. .  . “Well, it’s a real Nightmare, which happened to me very recently, which I can never forget I guess. Because that experience was very scary, dark, very dark.  Well am from Mangalore, One day Me and My Mother were traveling to Bangalore, in a night bus. My mother loves traveling to Banglore in…

This time it changed!

Yes, it changed! I still remember few months back when I was taunted, questioned and laughed at when I was into weight-training. Weight-training is not considered something a woman should do. I didn’t get all muscled up, I just toned my muscles. Just the right amount! I made sure that I had a well-defined set…

MY CLOTHES MY CHOICE

The Indian society views girls wearing traditional Indian clothes like suits, sarees and lehengas are “sanskari” while girls in western clothing are labelled as seeking the attention of men. People very easily judge the character of a girl from the way she is dressed. Image source: www.boredpanda.com “Girls should not wear revealing clothes.” “Girls wear…

When A Girl is still An Issue

Last week, a friend of mine came visiting. Seven months pregnant, she was on her way home to UK from India. Glass bangles sparkled from her slender, henna-dyed hands, and she looked every bit a radiant mother-to-be. Her transit was brief, barely a few hours. So, we strolled in a mall close-by catching up as…

 Bleed red with pride!  

Eventually the next day she removed the wet and awful smelling cotton cloth that turned red overnight from her vagina. She hold it with all her love and cleaned it deliberately. Blood was flowing like several small brooks on her things. She was fascinated by the flow. She looked at her own blood so intensely…

Its Me walking Naked, not you!

“What is she wearing yaar”, “oo, bhai look at her”, “vo saxena ji ki ladki hai na, bda bda western-western krti hai”; you may have not listened to all that, but its is the truth. 70 years of independence and still our society cannot bear the women dressed up freely. We say it’s a democratic…