The I Column
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…
Being a journalism student once, and having a network of seniors and batch mates who came from a journalism background,…
I find that sports spaces demand that all athletes, irrespective of their gender, ‘play like men’. I was recently coaching…
It was very interesting to read Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine) by Malini Chib and the…
If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….
This is a good enough place to begin. From inside your own skin. Before we could speak, we moved. We…
I graduated from a Law School in Bangalore in 2012 and moved back to my hometown, Lucknow, U.P., where I…
Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was thin? Or, when was the first time I was made to realise I was ‘different’ and there was something wrong with me that needed to be fixed? Or, when was the first time I defined myself as a thin person and was comfortable being so?
Why do we always assume that violence is done to us by someone else and not that we do it to ourselves quite easily and then have a million explanations to justify why we do not eat, why we use Fair and Lovely face cream, why we spend hours in the gym under duress, and why we focus incessantly on how much one has gained or lost in kilos and not in a metaphysical sense?
To write about safe abortion, I picture what the best-case scenario is for someone seeking a safe abortion in Lebanon.
It’s that time of the year again. Those 31 days during which we, the 49%, have a chance to be…
Introduction: As this first-person account of Anita, a Devadasi in Maharashtra, Western India illustrates, issues of consent and violence/coercion cannot…
I knew that I was gay since time knows when. The society made me know. Be it my friend’s snarky…
When I was 16, I thought: ‘Some topics in physics have no benefit for students throughout their life. For instance,…