When Women Talk

In the Driver’s seat

Who is the modern Indian Woman?

On a recent trip to Mumbai with my family, my father persisted on booking me a cab with a female driver for our destinations were different. It was twelve noon, the sun was out and bright, and the humidity made me perspire. Before I…

Redefining Cool

When I was growing up, cool was the thing to be. From Shahrukh khan in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai epitomising the word to it trickling down to the day to day vocabulary, cool is what we all strived to be. And what defined cool for a teenage girl or maybe just in my circle was the ability to be able to scoff…

ASHA

The past few weeks have given me a deeper cognisance of what it takes to belong to a certain gender, community, income group and country; all at the same time. India, a country that takes immense pride in its diversity and religions that worship Goddesses are in reality a cobweb of inequalities, injustice, misogyny…