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In Families With Same-Sex Parents, The Kids Are All Right
The researchers also concluded there was no evidence that children raised by a single parent or same-sex couples were less competent or well-rounded than other children. If anything, studies of single-parent families show these men and women are more flexible in their parenting styles than they are given credit for.
By Curated Content
In dealing with other people’s trauma, India’s mental health workforce is battling burnout
India has a severe shortage of mental health professionals and the experiences of counsellors like Kapoor raise the question of whether there is a wave of therapist burnout in the country. Unfortunately, there has been no research to indicate the extent of the problem in India.
By Curated Content
In conversation with Sheema Kermani
Sheema Kermani is a cultural activist, theatre practitioner, theatre director and a known Pakistani exponent of Indian classical dance. She had studied Bharatanatyam…
By TARSHI
July 1, 2014
In Appreciation of Singlehood
Growing up, for me, has been about accepting that the loneliness and sadness woven into the fabric of my being do not go away with entering conventional arrangements like monogamous relationships or marriage.
By Siddhi Pandey
February 1, 2021
ILLUSTRATION REPORTAGE: MONAZ DIARY
Illustration Reportage: Monaz Diary About MONAZ DIARY Manish Nayak likes to call herself Monaz as she feels the name completes…
By Anirban Ghosh
June 1, 2014
ILLEGALLY ADULT: THE STRANGE CASE OF ALISHA MAJOR
She was 17 when she was rescued from a dance bar. Now she’s 18 and she wants to go back. As an adult. And…
By Bishakha Datta
January 2, 2018
Illegally Adult: The Strange Case of Alisha Major
She was 17 when she was rescued from a dance bar. Now she’s 18 and she wants to go back. As an adult. And dance again. That’s what Alisha wrote in a letter to the Child Welfare Committee.
Alisha’s letter may be one of a kind. It doesn’t matter. It may even be a scam of sorts, in that she was pushed to write it. Doesn’t matter. What’s interesting is the jumble that it throws up, if you look at her choices through eyes that are not hers.
By Bishakha Datta
June 17, 2016
If you want safety, you must toil for it.
‘Take charge; build safe spaces for yourself.’ ‘Be the change you want to see.’ ‘Inclusion starts with I.’ My…
By Samarth Khanna
October 4, 2021
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
If the Internet didn’t exist, I believe I would be a highly insecure person. Don’t read that the wrong…
By Ragamalika Karthikeyan
July 1, 2015
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…
By Shweta Krishnan
November 1, 2014
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Have the Wish, I Wish Tonight
While we were researching women’s access to public space in Mumbai under the aegis of the Gender and Space Project,…
By Shilpa Phadke
August 15, 2015
I will meet you post quarantine
A kiss for the side of your neck One for the last of your back For a year that we…
By Aishwarya Shrivastav
December 1, 2021
I want to 377 you so bad (and Other Poems)
i want to 377 you so bad till even the sheets hurt i want to ache your knees singe your…
By Akhil Katyal
June 17, 2015
I Walked Out in My Night Dress
There it was the road I was looking for, / Where I walked in my night dress / under the morning sun, / with no sleeves and no legs / with no bra and no shame.
By Tanya Sharma
August 2, 2016
I Spent a Year in India and I Looked Ridiculous!
Despite the intervention of many well-meaning aunties and friends over cups of chai, I don’t think I was aware of how truly strange, let’s even say ridiculous, I looked at the time. Because although I was wearing kurtis nearly every day, I didn’t really understand the ‘rules’ of wearing kurtis.
By Annie McCarthy
August 2, 2016