WIND in my hair, spring in my step, joy in my heart, and a song on my lips — I clearly remember every sensation from my first solo vacation ten years ago. I was slightly anxious, a little nervous, but excited nonetheless — and relieved...
Saadiya Ali is a burst of energy. This 26-year-old comedian has been making her presence felt in the comedy circuit since 2017, when she performed as a participant in TLC India’s Queens of Comedy. Her spontaneity helps her stand out, and she’s quick to look...
How would you define yourself? I think the one word that defines me the best is: fighter. Nothing has ever come easy to me and so I have learned to fight for what I want. It’s always a struggle, and I am always fighting to...
“Harini, your uncles are coming home, go wear something that properly covers your body.” Does it feel like you’ve heard this somewhere? Of course, not with the name Harini, unless your name is Harini… but you get my drift? Perhaps you haven’t heard it addressed...
“Patriarchy is the nucleus of this problem and all other factors contributing to violence against women manifest themselves around it.” — No Nation for Women, Priyanka Dubey IN her introduction, Priyanka Dubey reminds us that while we — collectively as a society — are aware...
FOR decades, women have been fighting to make their way out of the kitchen. Social norms and patriarchal values interplay to seal the fate and limit the potential of many women there. Yet ironically, for women who want to cook professionally, getting into the kitchen...
FOR long now, the grapevine has carried news about harassment of actresses on and off sets. Of over-friendly co-stars, people who barge in uninvited into actresses’ rooms with a spare key and those who molest them in a crowd. All this would be dutifully printed...
You can run around with girls and boys all your life and it’s considered adorable; but when second puberty strikes, it’s like you’re suddenly walking a thin line between friends and potential lovers. Yes. Life is strange. I’ve gotten along with guys better than with...
When Vesta Spivakovsky’s two-year-old daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband, the child’s father, Vesta was left to deal with a crime that wasn’t recognised by the law in Russia. ‘Family kidnapping’ had no established legal recourse and in 2010, Vesta had no experience of dealing...
How would you define yourself? I think I would define myself as a happy, honest, loving and authentic person. First thing you do when you wake up? I cannot do anything but look at and check updates on my phone. Last thing you do before...
