Since I was the first son born to her after four daughters, my siblings always teased her that the household had to eat whatever her pampered son wanted to eat.

Shaheen Bagh protestors have shown the rest of the country how to protest peacefully, and be heard.

The Pune edition of Women Writer’s Fest was a day of intense sharing and bonding, and the festival was concluded on a note of bonhomie as the audience mingled freely with the panellists.

A big part of the stories of all these women is the fact that they’re women entrepreneurs in what is still a male-dominated industry.

“If you have a pen, you have the power to write and change the way people look at the world. If we write about people in protests, it will remain forever and people will know the power of human determination and imagination.” – Sudha Menon

“I write multiple books at a time, I go to workshops, I just started my career in acting. I wish sometimes that I had a less restless soul.” – Sudha Menon

For the fourth panel at the Women Writers’ Fest in Mumbai, theatre actors Dolly Thakore and Ira Dubey sat down with moderator Sudha Menon for a candid and spunky conversation on Feisty Women and Feisty Stories. From success and failure, and experimenting with jobs and life, Thakore and Dubey relegated the audience with personal stories, which […]

Feisty at Fifty is a moving personal story and a guide to making the fifties the most fabulous decade of your life. An excerpt from the chapter ‘The Pursuit of Middle-aged Sexiness’: I was at lunch with the girl gang sometime before I turned fifty and the conversation veered towards how we were ageing and […]

If you live even in a moderately big city, there is no chance that you have remained unexposed to radio voices. The private radio station revolution, which gripped Indian metros in late 2000, has now even percolated into small towns and cities. And this space is ruled by radio jockeys or RJs who command a […]

If you are a woman, the propensity of facing barriers in carving out a career in any given field is high. The literary field is no different. Women writers are often dismissed as writing either ‘chicklit’ and ‘romance’ or being too sentimental and ‘feminine’ in their writing. In a world where mansplaining and male chauvinism […]