Gender inequality has been an issue since India took birth and Maneka Gandhi’s comment about paternity leave reflects that it still has sharp Canines. It all started on August 11, 2016. After continuous complaints from women working in the private sector regarding the refusal that they faced when they asked for maternity leave, the Parliament passed the Maternity Benefit … [Read more...]
The Lost Maa In The Modern Era Of Mother’s Day
If love is as sweet as a flower, then mother is that sweet flower of love. I do not wish each mother today a very Happy Mother’s Day, but I wish each of them a very happy life on this Mother’s Day. There may have been great kings, great rulers and great human beings, but the greatest of all is a mother. These are no sugary words knitted to adorn the occasion but these are my … [Read more...]
His Daughter Studies Medical, And He Begs On The Street. It’s His Punishment For What He Did!
Every day I saw him sitting at the same place asking the passersby to give him a penny or two. He looked decent, didn’t have any sort of disability but still why did he resort to begging? I always thought about asking question this question to him, but then the busy life we lead hardly allows us to stop and ask people like him. I always dropped him whatever little I was left … [Read more...]
This Father’s Day, Take A Moment, And Think About Our Father Whom We All Have Failed
“He promised me that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.” -Jonathan Safran Foer Father! A Father is a teacher who doesn’t keep us from making mistakes but lets us find our own way. He builds within us the courage to witness and combat all the atrocities of life … [Read more...]
“My Father Asked Me To Remove My Pants, And Then Went To Get Some Oil,” This Is How It Started.
The purest relationship which perhaps exists in today’s world is that between a parent and a kid. In majority of the cases, both are deeply in love with each other. But this is not one of those cases. This story is about Juli and what her father did to her. It takes a lot of courage and heart to come up and discuss something as personal as this. And that is what blew me … [Read more...]