Everybody’s personal experiences are their raw data. Things that happen to you in the first person are your most individual source, and the things that a writer hears or reads are secondary sources. – WWF 2021 Anuja Chauhan
Locked inside the house for more than a month now, it’s the birds, the trees, the changing seasons, and some persistent old memories that keep author, Anukrti Upadhyay, company. Is everyone experiencing the same gamut of feelings, she wonders, in this letter about the passage of time and life. In these days of isolation, I […]
We have to break down the gender norms that say sports are a male-only domain and girls are not capable of competing. In this interview Shapley tells you to look for the right signs.
The orphan stepped into the house as a petite 14-year-old bride. From day one she kept her promise and tended to the upkeep of the house. She annually whitewashed it, plastered it with layers of cow dung slurry. She pasted the ceiling with old newspapers. daily she washed the courtyard and decorated it with muggu. […]
She was fast asleep when she felt a hand on her mouth. She jerked awake to see her husband signaling for silence. The clock showed it was past 2:00 am. She turned in panic to the baby but he was fast asleep. Her husband gestured towards the door still signaling for silence. Her heart raced. […]
The families agreed. The bride would remain in her parental home until puberty. But the move to her married home kept getting postponed – she just didn’t want to stop studying. When she graduated, her husband finally asked her when she intended moving in with him. She is said to have flung the mangalsutra in […]
The church was packed like sardines, raising a stink at the funeral mass. The cops found Vincent in a pool of blood, next to a dresser with two teacups, one with crimson lipstick, in a motel. “Lydia, I’m sorry you had to devote your life to a cheat. He deserved his fate.” I sat in […]
Even Michelle Obama recalls how she’d get mad at Barack for always finding time to work out when she didn’t have time to get her hair in place.
“Whether you’re married or in a complicated relationship, the one constant relation we have is with food,” says Shivani Mohan at the Women Writers Fest 2019, Hyderabad Chapter.
“Don’t blame your health on your genes because that’s a very old school thought. Science of genes has changed. It says that you can change your gene expression. You can be the master of your biology.” – Dr Mickey Mehta.
