I spoke with a friend of mine a few days back. She’d been having a tough time dealing with college, social life et al and wanted to talk about it. Turns out, a bunch of people from her class had been actioned (and all too gleefully) badmouthing her. I won’t go into details about all the spiteful remarks, but the gist of it all was that she was very closed in, talked to people … [Read more...]
Here’s How A 15 Year Old Girl From Pakistan Is Doing Her Bit To Improve India-Pak Relationship.
Writing about Khushboo gets really special. So far, my only little friend from Pakistan. The only one among my little adorable sisters who calls me “api” and not “didi”. A growing bud with eyes full of hope and heart full of hope. I met Khushboo on Facebook while trying to know more about Indo-Pak Peace Project, an initiative by two school-students; respectively from India … [Read more...]
The ‘slut’ culture in colleges of India – And we say we are educated people!
We Indians love talking about issues related to women like empowerment, feminism, their safety, taking a stand against rape and things like that. But when it comes to the practicality aspect of all this, everything goes into the gutter. We see youngsters coming out from colleges to protest against injustice done to women, be it Nirbhaya or any other incident for that matter. … [Read more...]
Girls get treated like objects after Marriage. And it’s not only/just the husband who is doing it.
The most important word every individual needs to learn and moreover dare to speak it out… For some it’s very easy, but for few its one of the toughest tasks in the world. Coming to the topic, it basically is with respect to women. This stuff came into my mind after watching the episode of Code Red where a newly married girl was barely noticed by her husband, her husband came … [Read more...]
One secret of India’s women you may have never talked about. But is that hush hush for any good?
“I am going to my room, and please don’t disturb me, I need to sleep.” I shouted to my mom who was in the kitchen when I came back from college. I was having a bad stomach ache and all I wanted to do was tuck myself in the blanket and get some rest. It was 18th of January, so I pretty much knew why my stomach was paining, my periods were due. I didn’t even bother to change, … [Read more...]