Only a few days back, a young techie candidly asked me what patriarchy meant. Call it muscle memory, or my sociological strength training, I naturally assumed I knew the answer to this one, but when I failed to articulate it out loud, I was taken aback at my own half-baked knowledge.
Category: Gender
Healing My Festering Wound
There occur, but a few incidents in life that can be particularly disturbing when you keep them to yourself & equally tormenting while sharing with others. The last thing I wanted for myself was to relive the horror that engulfed me one fateful night. But over the course of the following few weeks, I started noticing that my reaction to day-to-day things started coming from a place of fear. This is when I realised that some incidents inflict a wound that is far deeper than we can imagine.
To marry, or not?
Do women- who feel financially and emotionally secure, and independent enough to take care of themselves- have a choice not to get married? And remain unmarried, not to prove a point to anyone, or the society at large, but for a reason as simple as, not finding someone desirable, or compatible enough, or as long as they don’t, without being stigmatised for their singlehood.
She ‘seems’ interested! But, is she?
“Behave normally. Why are you ‘pretending’ to be a potential ‘victim’ or something?” This is not the first time that I have been greeted with such words. And I am pretty sure, many of you too would be quite familiar with such a line of reasoning. And even if not for personal accounts (blessed are […]
न निर्भय, न निर्भया।
यह देख के अपना मुख मत फेरना, कि यह लेख हिंदी में हैं…. क्या करूँ, डर की कोई भाषा नहीं होती ।
Why I refuse to celebrate Women’s Day Today!
I feel ‘Caged’ that I am a Woman- caged in a body that has to be ‘perfect’ else no one will love her, caged in ‘morals’ which have to be ‘right’ else no one will marry her, caged in a space where her words have to be ‘politically correct’, else no one will approve of her!
माँ !
माँ!
एक अक्षर का, यह शब्द छोटा सा,
करता है बयान, एक महान दास्ताँ।
Ki & Ka: Is a Gendered Role Reversal of Marriage Possible or is it Reinforcing another Stereotype?
Disclaimer: This is not a review of the Movie but how I find, the idea which it is endorsing, extremely problematic! Ki and Ka is being celebrated as an unconventional story of ambitious Kia and homely Kabir; where the former is depicted as the bread earner, while the latter, a well-domesticated man, happy with his […]
WOMEN- NOT ALLOWED!
As our beloved nation is slowly and steadily embracing modernity and moving towards unprecedented technological advancement, bringing onto itself, worldwide name and fame, yet, there exist certain practices, which in the name of tradition are inhibiting its progressive flight and bringing it only regressive filth and shame. One such practice is the restricted entry of […]
Is ‘Gay’ Okay?
Bold is Beautiful; as these last words drowned in the emptiness of the screen, I was visibly overwhelmed by a barrage of emotions that had stirred me up on watching an advertisement film to promote an ethnic wear brand and I must congratulate the brain behind it. Emotionally stirring and beautifully made, it was a […]
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