Maternity Leave is Awesome. But Why Does it Need to be Justified by...
By Nisha Susan A friend of mine used to say to anyone who’d listen that she didn’t care what politicians were motivated by – as long as their policies were good. Were they doing things for attention,...
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By Akangsha J Photo by UNICEF Ukraine via Wikimedia CC 2.0 Flashback to a year ago. My labour and delivery went as smooth as they could possibly go, like the entirety of my pregnancy. I had the baby...
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By Maya Palit Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Gayathiri Bose, a Singapore-based woman, was on the way from Frankfurt airport to Paris when she had a harrowing ordeal. According to a BBC news report,...
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By Akangsha J Photo Credit: Pixabay The first six months of my daughter’s life sped by. But after starting her on solid foods, it was time for me to get back to work. Thankfully, I had a battery of...
View ArticleWhat’s Not to Love About These New Emojis?
By Sharanya Gopinathan Rayouf Alhumedhi proposed hijabi emoji. Image courtesy Rayouf Alhumedhi via Scribd Wheee, Unicode Consortium, which is the body that creates the emojis you use on your phone and...
View ArticleIndian Railways is Trying to Make Life Easier for Breastfeeding Mums
By Nidhi Kinhal Photo courtesy Children Investment Fund Foundation via Flickr by CC 2.0 The taboo of public nursing, paired with the lack of designated spaces for breastfeeding in public areas, makes...
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By Sharanya Gopinathan Rivka Shahani. Photo courtesy Rivka Shahani Happy World Breastfeeding Week! You may have noticed newspapers celebrating the occasion, mostly by telling women how to eat, drink...
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By Nisha Susan Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons The last place you expect to hear hipster parenting views is in the Madras High Court. But here is what happened in the last week of December. Justice N...
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By Silpa Satheesh This is the second in our new series, Undercover, on things women do that they wish didn’t need to be kept secret. Read part one here. Photo by UNICEF Ukraine via Wikimedia CC 2.0 As...
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By Sharanya Gopinathan Grihalakshmi March 2018 cover. Grihalakshmi and Vanitha were monthly staples at my house growing up, until one year they mysteriously weren’t. I think it was the year I moved...
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By Dhriti Mehta Photo courtesy @ramindersays on Twitter With the recent controversy stirred by Gilu Joseph’s cover for Grihalakshmi, the media and the Internet is abuzz with opinions about the...
View ArticleKerala High Court Rules That You Are The One With The Dirty Mind
By Aashika Ravi When British poet and polemicist John Milton argued passionately for freedom of speech in his speech Areopagitica as early as 1644 about print censorship, he declared, “If we think to...
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