Still She Rises: The Everyday Battles Of Women In India
In a country where goddesses are worshipped, women still struggle every day to claim their rightful space at home, at work, and on the streets. From persistent violence and economic disparity to...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Safety, This Is Silence
Trigger Warning: Sexual violence, gender-based harm, dowry deaths, and daily harassment India celebrates its festivals with pride, color, and chaos — but what happens behind the lights? Behind the...
View ArticleWhen Survival Is Framed As Freedom: A Woman’s Perspective
I've heard this sentence many times: "Look now she's free, she's earning, she's living alone, she's travelling, chasing her dreams." And everytime I hear it,something feels off. Because we have been...
View ArticleTill Death Do Us Part: Inside India’s Marital Violence Crisis
Marriage in India is often considered sacred — a lifelong commitment celebrated in full glory and upheld as a milestone. But behind closed doors, across cities and towns, the sanctity of that supposed...
View ArticleWhy Is It Always Her?
Who is she? What is she wearing? Where is she going? Who is she going with? Why is she even going let the boys of the house do the outside work? Why shouldn’t she go out late? Why shouldn’t she roam...
View ArticleThe Case of Raja Raghuvanshi And The Misogynistic Backlash
A sensational new murder case involving a husband named Raja Raghuvanshi from Indore, a honeymoon, conspiracy, and an allegedly implicated wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi has once again brought online...
View ArticleThe ‘Help’ Fallacy: She Wasn’t Helping, She Was Holding It Together
“Woh toh sirf madad karti thi”— this one sentence shaped how I saw my mother’s work for years. Every time someone came home and saw her working alongside my father on the farm, or managing household...
View ArticleHow To Bribe A Policeman
All I wanted was some bhelpuri. The chaat shop is just 600 metres from home. I could’ve walked. But the June sun was shining down like a celestial tandoor. So I hopped onto my Ather. Helmet?...
View ArticleShe’s 5 And Thinks Being “Fair” Is Beautiful, Where Did She Learn That ?
Fifteen days ago, my five-year-old cousin walked into my room, looked at a brown-skinned actor on my laptop screen, and casually said, “She is not beautiful. Fair skin people are always beautiful.” I...
View ArticleSingle Motherhood As A Crack: The Sacred Politics Of Rupture
In a world increasingly obsessed with coherence—where family is tightly packaged, care is privatized, and womanhood is regulated through marriage—single motherhood emerges not as failure, but as a...
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