“Are bahu, bs ab jaldi se ek pota dedo”, “hey your biology clock is ticking”, ” Start planning for a baby, it is more important than career”, etc.. etc.. all these dialogues are very common for almost every newly married girl in India. As soon as she gets married the immediate thing happens is that every Dadi and Nani enthusiastically blesses them…[Read more]

The process of education is way beyond the scope of certain books and curriculum of schools and university. But the irony here is we are not educated enough about the process of education itself. And this is one of the main reasons why people of our nation, once famous for its revolutionary and contemporary thought process, has reduced to a…[Read more]

The work of managing households is as noble as God’s work of managing the universe, where the only difference is we are not God, though women are often seen doing miracles for their universe – their family.

From the very inception of the evolution of mankind, in the very foundation of human civilization Women have always been the experts of the…[Read more]

“Dear, please cover yourself properly and then step outside the house.”
A sentence that a girl has to hear thousands of times in her life. Why?
Are we, as a society, that unsafe and untrustworthy?
Be it any public transport, women are still mistreated. There are always a few people who stare at them and make them uncomfortable or teach them…[Read more]

The birth of a child is probably one of the happiest moments in the life of any person. But sadly, for some persons the word ‘child’ can only refer to a baby boy. For them, a female child is no more than a biological trash and thus they commit the horrendous crime of female foeticide.
It’s been recorded that more 100,000 abortions are perfo…[Read more]

In the recent times of so called “modernization”, we, the most hypocritical generation of all time, have always acted being the most sensible ones when it comes to having a say in the case of social evils that exist since older times. When we are asked to express our thoughts on social evils, we always have the most logical and sensible reasons to…[Read more]

Who’s better at what? Who’s better than whom? Men or women? We have been trying to answer these questions since the very inception of gender or sex probably. But let us think over it for a second. Do we really need to stress over this after all? All these apparent differences are either externally induced through societal norms or else bio…[Read more]

First of all the fact that there arose a need to empower women, says much about how we have failed to qualify as an ideal society. How ironic it is, that women, the more powerful gender of the two, except probably physically, needs to be empowered! The fact this term ‘women empowerment’ is in the knowledge of almost all, says much about the pro…[Read more]

All of us are aware of the fact that one of the root causes of all the social issues that exist is the downtrodden mentality of the society. Of course, we all belong to the society but that does mean that the society owns us. Let us take an example here. Many of us live in cooperative housing societies. Of course the members of such a society need…[Read more]

Bollywood- one of the biggest entertainment industries in the world, is one such rare industry that has the power to influence the more than a billion strong population of India. And as the most prominent contemporary of Bollywood has once said, “with great power comes great responsibility.”, it must shoulder this responsibility with immense sen…[Read more]

Domestic violence is a much graver social issue than it is assumed to be. The reason that it poses such a threat to the society is because generally, it is not taken that seriously or more often than not it is shrugged off by most people. This is probably because they can hardly empathize with the woman who is on the receiving end of domestic…[Read more]

People whose faith lies with gender justice make an attempt to argue that notion of gender equality is faulty as it overlooks the apparent differences between men and women, both socially and physically, and tries to deem women as equal to men. But the very important thing that is misunderstood here is that the justifications given for the notion…[Read more]

‘Beauty standards’ – the very fact that there arose a need to coin this term, proves that our society is quite far from being an ideal one. When we attach the word ‘standard’ to anything, it means that we intend to make a comparison. So, the coinage of the term ‘beauty standards’ also means that our society intends to compare or rather catego…[Read more]

How queer and convenient it is that women can’t just separate themselves from men! Whether it is the word ‘women’ itself or a completely natural yet glaringly stigmatized biological phenomenon which, though exclusive to women, is ironically called ‘menstruation’. Apparently men have nothing to do with this phenomenon, as it is the women who go th…[Read more]

Modern’ – the linguistic definition of this word can be given as someone who is inclined to practices that are different, if not in contradiction, to the traditional and archaic value system. Now if we go on to associate this word to today’s society, especially keeping the situation of women as the matter of our concern, it would be oddly dif…[Read more]