Powerful by Nirupama Subramanian: Changing the conversation from how stereotypes shackle women to how they can enable them, Nirupama Subramanian in Powerful: The Indian Woman’s Guide to Unlocking Her Full Potential uses the wisdom of archetypes to provide practical advice to women to claim the powers they need to achieve their goals. An Excerpt: My […]
If women want to retain their sanity and remain safe during this situation, they need to be aware of the mindsets that will interfere with their wellbeing.
It is important that women capitalize on this experience to lay down healthy boundaries and share the responsibility of domestic tasks.
There are things we all can do on a daily basis without too much effort or time that will in some way enable girls to feel stronger, men to feel more compassionate and create some change in the mindset of both.
Despite being a stranger here in Hanoi, I feel safe. There is something almost familiar about the rush of two wheelers on the roads and the throng of people on the sidewalks.
The three factors-Ambition Deficit, Imposter Syndrome and Confidence gap are all connected. One leads to another and each reinforces the other. The first step is to recognize that we are suffering from one of these and then take some concrete steps to overcome them.
A few months ago, it was election time  in my daughter’s school. In the fray for five positions on the council were nine boys and three girls. “It is a hopeless case. I don’t think there is any point standing for the elections,” confessed my daughter. The boys will win.” “How can you say that? […]
Nirupama Subramanian talks about how we can handle our day-to-day challenges better through STEP. STEP is based on many concepts and models and also on lived experiences that psychologists and experts have proposed. Reena’s story I am the Service Delivery Manager for a team in a leading ITES company. My customers are in the US. I […]
I recently enjoyed reading The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The book not only tells the Ramayana from Sita’s perspective, it also brings into the light certain neglected characters from the epic. The woman characters are well fleshed out and we can connect to the emotions and motivations of Kaushalya, Mandodari and Urmila who […]
It is December now and most of us are asking – Where did the year go? It is almost as if we were standing on a platform watching a bullet train whiz by in front of us. Events in the public domain have faded from our mind, even highlights from our personal lives from a […]
