Asking women to give up all the salary they earnt in their entire life to in-laws as dowry is wrong on two levels. It supports the practice of dowry which is a crime and it also oppresses women by keeping them deprived of their rights.

Gender equality is about providing both men and women equal rights and equal freedom to exercise them. It is not about empowering the oppressed at the cost of oppressing others.

I am not saying that in marriage, partners don’t take care of each other. But there is more to a marriage than caregiving.

Matrimonial ads have gone from being bad to worse and now straight up bizzare. Here are five such advertisements that shouldn’t have made it to print.

If someone is old enough to get married and start a family, aren’t they also old enough to make that decision on their own?

a woman can marry an unemployed man, be the financial anchor and support her husband in every struggle. While a househusband or stay-at-home dad should never feel ashamed of not providing their wife with the happiness they deserve because by helping in handling the house they are already fulfilling their responsibility.

It is very common for parents and relatives in India to train their daughters to become a good bahu in the future. But must a girl grow up fearing fearing and resenting a woman she has never even met?

Why do we continue to belittle women’s achievements and glorify marriage and motherhood?

There is no reason valid enough to justify domestic violence. But at wedding, physical altercations between a bride and groom are mostly laughed at. Why?

There are multiple ways of dealing with a marital conflict. Public shaming is certainly not one of them.