Since childhood, we women have been told that the honor of the entire family rests on our shoulders. From choosing the career options, making friends, what we wear, to the man we marry, at every step we have to think about the family before ourselves. Continue reading Why Are Women Pressured To Be Good?

My mom, the only one in my family who didn’t yearn for a son, tells me, “When your sister was born, granny and grandmother were crying in the hospital because they had desperately prayed for a son. Even the people who had come to meet me were sad because I had birthed a second daughter.” Continue reading My Mother Raised Two Daughters in a Society That Wanted a Son

It is truly disturbing that while change is the only constant in life, why are these age-old rituals not changing? Why should a girl, who has studied in a co-ed school, excelled academically, and earns just as much as her partner, be expected to leave her home? Continue reading What A 7-Year-Old Girl Thinks About Bidaai?

“We will sightsee until 4, chill for 2 hours, and at 6 go to the sunset point,” said my sister as she made a list of places we had to visit in Rishikesh. Everything was going as per the plan. … Continue reading Would you Eat Food offered by a Person from a Lower Caste?