Live-in in Love: Juggling Tradition and Modernity in Small-Town India
A few years ago, at a family gathering my aunt casually dropped a comment that left everyone momentarily stunned. She proclaimed, “I’ll ask my daughter...
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Marital Rape Jurisprudence: Inconsistencies Reaffirming Cruelty Based on Age
Cruelty anywhere is sickening, but cruelty within marriage is ironic and sickening! Marital rape has been a contested issue since time immemorial. The issue resurfaced...
A Female President Remains A Distant Dream For America
America, the world’s oldest and most mature democracy, has once again missed the opportunity to elect a woman to its highest office. After Hillary Clinton,...
क्रांति का आगाज़ ईरान की आज़ाद यूनिवर्सिटी से
पर क्या देश बन रहा है? 1979 से पहले ईरान की स्थिति आज के ईरान जैसी नही थी I महिलाओं की अभिव्यक्ति एवं उनके पहनावें...
The Great Indian Wedding Gifts
I was around five or six when my paternal uncle married my paternal aunt, prompting a huge celebration in the family that people from all...
Pink Tickets and Free Bus Rides For Women on DTC Buses
The Delhi government five years ago made the travel in DTC buses free for women. They are not required to pay for the ticket and...
Diwali Home Makeover: Easy Décor Ideas for Women with Busy Schedules
Diwali is not just a time for celebration but also an opportunity to completely redo your entire home once a year. However for women with...
Safe Cooking, Better Health: The Ujjwala Yojana and Its Role in Women’s Well Being
In developing countries like India clean and safe cooking especially in the rural parts of the country is a top priority of the government. Unsafe...
Brothel Soil For Dussehra Idol: An Ironic Symbol Of ‘RESPECT’
Festivals and traditions bring people together, be it for sharing joy or age-old miseries! The yearly routine of sculpting Durga goddess’s idol for Dussehra, has...
Shakti Rupena Sansthita: The One Who Resides in All Beings as Shakti
Pujo, Durga Pujo, is Bengal's biggest cultural and religious celebration. Panchami to Dashami is 5 days filled with festivities eagerly awaited by all Bengalis across...
So, what can men do?
I started writing this is in disbelief, and exhausting rage, which quickly extinguished into helplessness, and permeated as grief and eventually settled down as our...