“Anything that we don’t understand we inherently fear, and anything we fear then becomes a stigma. And unfortunately, there is a lot we do not know about the human mind yet.”

Reporting on conflict zones can be a challenge, but what are the challenges that are unique to the women in the conflict zones? How do women get involved with these movements? Be it a warzone or leading a troupe women play both overt and covert roles in such movements but are we talking enough about […]

Last year, when I visited Stockholm for the first-ever Gender Equality Forum organised by the Government of Sweden, I saw an interesting photo exhibition by Swedish photographer Johan Bavman. The 25 pictures were of men with their children, doing regular actions like bathing and feeding them, playing with them and one photo even showed a […]

‘Top Chef’ producer Padma Lakshmi and food critic Rashmi Uday Singh kicked off the Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai over the weekend, by participating in a delightful discussion, where Lakshmi spoke about her memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate, and her new cookbook, Spices and Herbs. Lakshmi said that it took her five years […]