You’ll never meet the perfect person. Maybe you think you will, but you won’t. You want someone understanding, someone caring, someone open-minded and clean and thoughtful to boot. A little soft on the eyes too. That’s too many asks you ask of, and you scold yourself, “You’re never gonna meet the…

When I first saw the trailer for Gehraiyaan, Dharma Production’s newest OTT child, I was expecting a web of lies, cheating, deceit, sex and glamour. And it was all that it promised to be. Unfortunately. “Do din mai life nahi badal jayegi.” Two days won’t change your life. That one…

25th November saw the global commercial release of the highly anticipated House of Gucci. With a stellar cast of the best, I was extremely interested in what would become of the high fashion true crime story. And while it was wonderful in pockets, an amalgamation of the same is what…

I was a child once. Young and dumb. I knew nothing, and I reveled in the ignorance of it all. As children, you’re given a pass to be yourself. Just enough of yourself though. Not too much. That’s when you’re brought back into the lines. We’re all piglets in a…

It is oft with regards to psychology that we, the common ones, never truly understand what we are going through, and what we can do. …

Why you need to call-out female dress code policing in schools, and how the culture of hypersexualisation takes its roots in dress code policing. A year ago, my sister told me a story. She isn’t really a good story-teller and I tend to interrupt her right when she reaches the…

Never meet your heroes. They are seldom who you think they are, my mother warned. Never meet your heroes. They may not live up to the ideal you set for them, my father warned. Never meet your heroes. They may be transphobic. …

I. A Long Way To Acceptance — As a bisexual woman, despite being a part of the spectrum, I never felt as if I was important to my community. The homonormativity constantly questioned my allegiance, and I was plagued with thoughts of alienation from either side of society. There always lingered a thought in my head. Would…

You know how there are those moments in time when you’re beside them, and you are doing- well what you’re doing doesn’t matter, does it? Because at that moment it’s just you and just them and it’s’s all right. It’s all real. He doesn’t really say sorry, you know? His…