You have to be living under a rock if you haven’t come across any comment pertaining to the video or the (in)famous ‘Aunty’s Video’ itself that shows a very unapologetic middle aged lady who’s being collectively admonished by a group of young girls for having shamed one of them on the length of the dress that she was wearing. Well, if you haven’t, I’ll save you the trouble of looking for it. It shows a regular looking middle-aged woman who’s

As women we go through a phase every month which ends up making us bloated and tired…all thanks to the incoming period alert. From pain, headache, water retention, mood swings…there are so many symptoms you experience just before your periods and to put it down in simple words you are PMSing. Around 90% of women go through PMS (Pre-menstrual syndrome), so rest assured it’s just a part and parcel of being a “woman”. PMS brings along weight gain and boom!

Many people of my generation will relate to the fact that older relatives and friends in the guise of advice or so-called love talk rudely or mock children.  They know they will get away with it because of their age or stature.  Children of our country are taught not to answer back or put forth their opinions in front of elders else they will be labelled as rude and badly brought up.  We ourselves never answer back, but what hurt

A homemaker to a changemaker Year 2015, a turning point of my life, which gave me the additional identity of a social activist. I completed my master’s degree in March 2015. A dream I dreamed from 1994, after completing my Bachelors of Science in Botany. I majored in Social Work and am proud I could do so after 20 years of playing a homemaker. Social work is my passion and with the strong support of my friends and family I

How does it feel when you see a young body hanging from the ceiling fan? Tied with a rope or a dupatta. Eyes bulged out. Neck collapsed. Tongue out.  How does it feel? How does it feel for a parent to see it?  Unimaginable, right? You are already feeling that little lump in your throat. You can already feel your heart pumping with the thought. Shudder in an unknown fear. Right? I felt exactly like this when I heard that

Some of you may be aware that this entire month of April I have been caught up with a writing challenge. For those who aren’t, I’ll just give a heads up that I have been writing and uploading a story almost every day this month around my chosen topic of partition. The reason I chose this particular topic was because I was trying to answer a question, that I often ask myself, ‘Where do I belong to?’ Since my grandparents

She is known as a designer with a difference, one who empowers women around her! A woman who strongly believes that money is valuable only when it helps make other women stand on their feet…Meet Neetu Arora, who has been in the world of design since the 10th grade. Neetu still fondly remembers the fifty rupees she earned by designing patchwork on a bed-sheet. Today she owns a designer studio named Luvya at Sector 7 C of Chandigarh. She designs

“Why?”, they ask me “Why?”, they blame me Every time I falter Every time I stumble But I don’t have an answer to their questions What should I tell them Every time they scream at me for being an open book For blurting out something that was not meant to be said out loud Should I tell themThat black and white are all I see?That there’s no in-between for me That it’s always an either-or, yes-no, true-false world for me?But

Recently saw a photo of Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja going viral where Anand was tying his wife’s shoelaces.  It was again believed to be one of those “couple goals”. I smile when such cute mushy pictures of celebrity couples are posted on the Internet and claimed to give “major couple goals.” This takes me back to the time when my son was 2 years old and I suddenly developed an infection in my C-section scar.  The reaction spread within

As parents, having our children around, raising and nurturing them and seeing them happy is our greatest satisfaction. No matter how old they grow we want to be protective and sheltering them. But as they grow independent and start taking their decisions about career, life and partners, sometimes as overindulgent parents we feel greatly cut off from their lives. When the time comes for them to move out, some parents feel the void and go into depression and sadness specially