It was one of those days of summer when sweat never stopped dripping down the skin, waiting at the counter of a shop near my hostel, to quench my thirst with a tetra pack of branded lassi, I felt someone tugging at my kurta. Living in a metropolitan that is home to some extremely indecent men I turned around in fury. But what I saw was just a little boy, whose mother was … [Read more...]
Parents Feel They Know Everything About Their Kids, But Actually They DON’T And Here Is Why
In my early years of parenthood, I did not see my parenting style with enough depth to make a good judgment of how my actions, expressions, emotions, my conflicts with my husband were affecting my child. I used to go off on tangents; could not stick to my decisions and I used to sob a lot. I spoke to my husband a number of times to try to improve the home environment and … [Read more...]
A 12 Year Girl Had To Choose – Marriage Or Prostitution. She Refused To Marry.
The practice of slavery has been abolished some 150 years back. However, today we have something called modern day slavery, a malicious act that is squashing the very prevalence of individuality and most importantly, childhood and its innocence. Slavery today has transformed into its contemporary counterpart which is popularly known as human trafficking, and with children being … [Read more...]
A Detailed Analysis Of The Challenges Of The Feminist Movement And What’s Going Wrong With It
“She has two kinds of work to do, the work of a producer in the factory and the work of a housekeeper” - Eleanor Marx-Aveling1 The epochal technology has touched every aspect of our lives. In some instances, where it has created heroic dissolutions of social evils, there are also instances where it has advertised in favor of the disruptions of human development and … [Read more...]
What This Girl Did To Escape From Her Abusive Parents Is Not What An 8 Year Girl Ever Does!
A silent eight-year-old Samantha was alone at her house and was waiting for her parents to return home from the clinic. She always wanted to look into her mother’s desk to know what the mother had stored in it. But she remembered how she was spanked and hit when she took out Crayola markers from her mother’s desk without seeking permission. So, Samantha lay on the floor, still … [Read more...]
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