When Did Honest Conversations Become Harder Than Violence?
For the last few days, I have been disturbed. Not because another murder has taken place. Sadly, India has witnessed many such tragedies before. What has unsettled me is something much ...
A Plate of Biryani and the Price of a Woman’s Dignity
I watched yet another controversy unfold on social media. A stage, a microphone, a cheering audience, and a young man joking that he wanted to "recover the cost of a ...
The Courage to Be Wrong
A few days ago, someone asked me for my opinion. I gave it. They looked disappointed. Not angry. Not offended. Just disappointed. It took me a while to understand why. They had not ...
We Teach Our Daughters to Adjust. But Do We Teach them When to Walk Out?”
I am a mother of two daughters. I also come from a large family filled with women—I had three sisters, and before us, there were six buas. I grew up ...
When Strength Makes Us Silent — A Mother’s Cry in the Face of Violence
There are some news stories you read, and they pass.And then there are some that do not leave you. They sit in your chest, heavy and unmoving, like grief that ...
Is Healing Becoming a Performance?
I often wonder when healing became something we needed to display.There was a time when emotional repair was quiet. People worked through grief, confusion, betrayal, and identity shifts in private ...
