September 6, 2018 (Thursday): Sandipan Kushary is both nervous and excited. The entire country is awaiting the Supreme Court’s verdict; so is he. Arnab Goswami is, as usual, screaming on top of his voice, debating whether or not India will reject IPC Section 377. But...
“I was in a five year relationship with this guy I met while doing my post-graduation. Three years into the relationship, I met this other guy at my workplace. And lo! I fell in love with him. But I didn’t do anything about it because...
FOR everyone who has achieved something in life, there would have been a defining moment when they realized what they wanted to do in life. For animal activist Sally Varma, it happened when she was just 12-years-old. “My sister and I used to regularly feed...
“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...
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...
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...
A week into 2019, a landmark judgement in Ireland announced that psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships would be considered a crime in that country. While I know I will not live to see the day when India acknowledges emotional abuse, let alone consider...
The other day, I got on Grindr. Yes, Grindr, not Tinder. No, I’m not a gay man. Yes, I know Grindr is for gay men. But, I really wanted to know what happens in a romantic space reserved for men and just as expected, I...
It’s a fact that men’s shaving essentials have grown at a much faster rate than women’s menstrual care products. After all, sanitary pads are the only options that line supermarket shelves — this is decidedly a step-up from cloth napkins which were used in the...
Anuradha Kishore was a practising paediatrician — for six years in England and thirteen years in India. It was her dad’s illness that brought her back to India. By then, she had had three children and life was hectic. “During my practice, I realised that...
