Initially when people used to tell me, ‘Oh how can you be so selfish’ I used to wonder, what I did wrong? As time passed, I started giving much less weightage to people’s opinions but I started analysing the situations that lead people to think...
A seven-year-old cannot sit still in class. An eight-year-old cries before school every morning. A ten-year-old struggles to read. A teenager spends hours alone in their room. Increasingly, the first question many adults ask is not, "What happened?" or "What does this child need?" Instead,...
Every generation inherits a free nation, but inheritance is passive. It falls to each of us to decide whether we will guard that freedom or quietly surrender it to new, subtler powers. There is a silence unique to the hour before dawn — different from...
Perception of the LGBTQ+ community comes through whispers, caricatures, laws, and cautionary tales. So, one naturally grows up absorbing them long before learning to examine them. It gets deeply ingrained that there exists a “normal” way to love, a “natural” way to desire, or inhabit...
Parenting adolescents has always been challenging, but parenting adolescents today feels like entering a world for which many parents were never emotionally prepared. The rules seem to change overnight. Conversations that once happened within homes, schools, and neighborhoods now unfold through disappearing messages, gaming chats,...
There was a time, not so very long ago, when human beings knew the secret art of doing nothing at all. Not the polished nothing sold in wellness packages, not the mindful nothing timed by apps. Just pure, unhurried nothing, the kind that arrived unannounced...
Yes, this is a very common heading, it just felt right for the content. Growing up, from all the fairy tales I heard, what I envisioned was there will be a prince and he will marry the princess i.e. man marries a woman and vice...
When Heated Rivalry won the prestigious Peabody Award and joined the hallowed list of queer dramas like Baby Reindeer and Fellow Travellers, more than a few stunned jaws touched floors, especially of those who had dismissed the series after barely two episodes. “People have reduced...
Motherhood is one of the most beautiful journeys in a woman’s life. Along with emotional joy and fulfillment, pregnancy and childbirth also bring major hormonal, physical, and emotional changes. After delivery, many women notice changes in their face, skin, body weight, and overall appearance. Common...
World Environment Day (June 5) often focuses on protecting the environment, but pollution is also affecting our skin, hair, and overall wellbeing. Daily exposure to air pollution, UV rays, smoke, stress, and environmental toxins is accelerating premature ageing and damaging skin health more than ever...
