Behind glittering corporate towers, young HR executive Sara Yahia’s corporate ascent collided with gender-based harassment and institutional betrayal. What followed was not just survival, but the beginning of a profound personal reckoning.
Former Indian Railways employee Sangeetha Vallat reviews British journalist Monisha Rajesh’s new book ‘Moonlight Express’ and finds cultural insight and social critique embedded in vivid descriptions of night-train journeys, food, people and landscapes.
Reimagining ancestral wisdom to fit modern lifestyles, Bhawana Pingali’s new book ‘The Art of Decluttering’ explores Indian rituals like kolam art, which is believed to protect homes and enhance wellbeing.
Sold as freedom, gig work masks insecurity and exploitation. For women, especially the marginalised, it’s not flexibility, but a fight for dignity. With her new book ‘OTP Please!’, Vandana Vasudevan adds her research to calls for systemic reform.
You may be holding up your world, caring for everyone else, but losing yourself along the way. Mumbai author Aruna Joshi shares how she learnt to pause and unlearn the belief that a woman’s worth lies in her usefulness.
Japanese violin teacher Mika Nishimura has spent the past 10 years helping Indian children align mind, body and spirit through holistic education along with music at her Sound of Soul academy in Mumbai.
Women stir pots in homes but it is men who shape global food policy. Food-science student Sambrita Saha analyses the simmering politics of an Indian kitchen, and reclaims it for herself as a site of agency and quiet rebellion.
Indian women from diverse backgrounds share their essential beauty products – from lipsticks and serums to sanitisers! – that fulfil their unique needs and give them their dose of beauty joy!
In the glossy brochures of gender equality, couples split the bills, swap diaper duty and share dreams. In reality? Women still bend – often without noticing – while men stand tall, hands mysteriously empty, writes Uttama Kirit Patel.
The manosphere of online networks and its ‘incel’ community foster toxic beliefs about women and attractiveness, intertwining issues of race and caste. A chill pill of love and inclusivity is called for, writes Rugmini Kalithodi.
US-based writer of Arab origin, Sara Yahia reflects on being an “insider-outsider”, navigating professional spaces that demand conformity and where – despite her qualifications – she confronts the exhaustion of constantly proving her worth.
India has the brainpower but not yet the ambition. In its booming biotech labs, young minds chase Western validation, not startup ideas and real-world solutions. Here’s how we can flip the script and lead globally, writes Dr Jinal Bhola.
In her new documentary ‘Working Girls’, Mumbai-based filmmaker Paromita Vohra explores women’s reproductive labour – spanning domestic work to surrogacy – revealing how law shapes visibility, value and control over female bodies and employment.
No need to clamour anymore for sought-after skincare from South Korea. The ingredients are right here – in desi formulations! Hansa Makhijani Jain lists 6 star K-beauty ingredients now available in Indian bottles.
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