Telling stories is how we change the world and women telling stories is how they change the world. Over the centuries, the voices of women writing fiction have grown stronger and clearer and the works they produce tell us the experiences that come to define ‘female-ness’ in a world that has always been skewed towards […]
Of all things being equal in a marriage in India, sadly, sexual consent isn’t. A lot of other things aren’t either, most times, but the very concept of sexual consent as being an integral part of the social and legal institution of marriage is absent. Marital rape is not a crime in India. Here’s Kiran Manral in The Married […]
At the Women Writers Fest in Mumbai, a pro-career and working women discussion put the big question about the monies. Who is the bread earner? Women need to be prepared to stay financially smart and independent. Are they doing enough? Do they need a stash of their own? How can they keep themselves financially separate […]
When it comes to Indian authors who write horror books, we tend to ignore the genre altogether. But here are some Indian women authors who seek to change the way we think or read in India. These authors will leave you mortified with their spine-chilling stories.
It is that time of the year again, and I go into immediate and terrifying flashbacks to my youth. Holi. I think most women have a horror story from Holi celebrations and it always involves men and groping. These are stories that often don’t get told. Because, well, Holi hai. Here’s Kiran Manral in the […]
Let me state right off the bat that the division of labour in our house is most skewed. I do almost nothing. Put it down to laziness or sheet incompetence, but I do the bare minimum that I am required to do with good enough cheer and the occasional grumbling. The spouse does his bit, […]
Back in the 1960s when Betty Friedan wrote that seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, she set a butterfly into the ethers of gender politics, one which would eventually cause a cyclone later. Many believed that this book was to blame for the sudden spike in dissatisfaction amongst the middle class married woman at the time, […]
When I got married over a couple of decades ago, I didn’t think of marriage as a necessary precursor to motherhood. Twenty years later, I still don’t. It took eight years for the biological clock to begin clanging furiously about the need to reproduce and contribute my mite to the global genetic pool. But once […]
Mandira Sen, the founder of a feminist publishing company, talks to SheThePeople.TV about the landscape of motherhood and how it has transformed with the current age of working women.
I rang the bell. There was no corresponding sense of movement from behind the closed door. I rang it again, like unanswered doorbells are meant to be rung, with a bristling sense of impatience. Silence. I waited uncomfortably. I’d still not taken his number because I’d walked off in a huff in the afternoon. I […]
