Pictures show that the Vaibhav Rekhi-Dia Mirza marriage was solemnised by a female priest, in a break from convention.

Dear society who gives you the right to dictate what is suitable for a woman or a man to eat?

Dancing is seen as degrading if women perform it but it is revered as a sacred means of expressing happiness, anger, sexuality and sadness when Gods and Goddesses perform it.

If only there were no gender discrimination, an elder sister would have rightfully stepped into the shoes of her father, wrapped around her mother’s empowering saree and become a feminist leader with power and compassion. And so would an elder brother without any gender barrier.

Women are abused because they choose the wrong men to spend their life with and not because men have patriarchal conditioning of dominating their female partner?

Is the deep-rooted bias of a male child over a female one holding our country’s children ransom?

There is a need to address the wide difference between the perception of marriage- if it is a mutual bond of love and respect for one, then why is it compliance with patriarchy for the other? Can we not have a marriage that is without a business deal, abusive relations or dehumanization of a woman?

Men on the other hand, the first grade creatures of society who enjoy the “bahumat” of privileges are also condensed into a box of wooden expectations and impenetrable moulds. 

While it has still not been completely assimilated into feminism, given its gender imbalanced roots, Karwa Chauth exists in tandem with the fight for equality today.

No normal human can be excellent in studies all the time, except in rare and extraordinary cases. No normal human can be so brisk and active that he or she can power through both job and housework without a gasp