The year was 2016 and Varsha Adusumilli was attending her best friend’s wedding in Jaipur. During the course of her stay in the Pink City, she met and held conversations with many of the bride’s cousins and relatives from nearby towns. The girls, in particular, were curious about Varsha. Hailing from Bangalore, Adusumilli looked different […]
Masih Alinejad grew up in a lush, small village in the Mazandaran province of northern Iran. Its name is but a tiny dot on the Iranian map, but Ghomikola was the capital of her world and the place where the political journalist’s history of resistance began. The family house was a humble structure made of […]
Sangeeta Talwar had been toying with the idea of a book until June 2015. Amidst the rumble of the media surrounding Maggi, when Nestlé endured a terrible debacle in 48 hours through negative advocacy, she saw a brand which had survived 30 years of consumer love and franchise suddenly go down the tubes. “It suddenly […]
When Elizabeth Flock first moved to India in 2008, she was pretty skeptical about arranged marriages. Her time in Mumbai led her to know couples who were in both happy and unhappy arranged marriages. “I learned that it’s really not whether a marriage is arranged or joined by love that makes it successful. A happy […]
Kubbra Sait’s journey can be described as anything but linear. Dissatisfied and looking to follow the yearning of her heart, the actress, anchor and TV show host sought a shift from the marketing world to being #PaidToTalk. From engaging with audiences at the Filmfare Awards, transporting people to Rajasthan through the television screen, hosting the […]
Richa Kaul Padte first started thinking about porn in 2013, when a legal petition to ban internet pornography was presented to the Supreme Court of India. In a country where the making and distribution of sexual content is officially illegal, countless digitally connected people make their way online every day to watch, read, write or […]
As a child, Aparna Jain had a beautiful and extensive book collection. And no matter what the story, she always found women to be heroic in their own way. Inspired by the children’s book Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Aparna decided that her book was going to be different because “our stories are not so simple – our […]
Sunny Singh is the Chairperson at the Authors’ Club and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the London Metropolitan University. Her debut novel Nani’s Book of Suicides won the Mar De Letras Prize in Spain, and her latest novels, the critically acclaimed Hotel Arcadia and Amitabh Bachchan, showcase the author’s mastery across genres. SheThePeople.TV […]
Daisy Khan was just 3 when she put on a pair of red boxing gloves and walked to the front yard of her family home in Kashmir. She had been bullied by a bigger child the day before and her father wanted to teach her how to throw a punch in order to stand up […]
Sanam Maher remembers staring at the television – the day the news of Qandeel Baloch’s murder surfaced – and feeling stunned. She knew she couldn’t let go of her story again. Before Sanam started freelancing, she worked as an editor in a newsroom at a daily English paper in Karachi. The first time the journalist […]
.jpg)