Finding Peace within Diversity
India is a world of contradictions – the hand-pulled rickshaw parked near a bright red sports car. A tin-roof dwelling resting precariously on the wall of a multi-storied building. A mosque sharing a wall with a Hindu temple. A goddess worshiped in a temple, and a woman attacked not far away from it. My identity […]
Menstruation : A step closer to change
It was a regular Sunday afternoon when I dashed out of my room, looking for my mom and realising that I would have to ask my father where the extra stock of sanitary napkins were stashed. With much reluctance and awkwardness, I popped the question to which he asked me to check behind the clothes, […]
So You Believe She Asked For It, Eh!
Unsafe
We have constructed a society in which every girl is abused. We fight against abuse. We never think it’ll happen to us. And then it does. We go silent. We stop talking. Stop responding. Silent. We move into the sidelines. Avoid confrontation. Hope it will stop. We give up pieces of ourselves, waiting for the […]