Elisa Patnaik

When a distant cousin and his wife recently separated, the estranged wife expressed her reluctance to take their two children with her. When the cousin decided to keep the children with him,…

Is a person who is called a - Businessman, Salesman, Chairman, Crewman, Foreman, Policeman, Postman - only male?And when we say Layman, Manpower, Mankind, Manned, Man-made, Landlord do…

As I turn the pages of the newspaper each day, not a single day passes without the reported news of at least one girl or woman getting raped in different places of India. So common and…

‘Visible Work, Invisible Women’ -- this profound title of a critically acclaimed photo exhibition by celebrated journalist P. Sainath, exemplifying the great range of work done by rural…

I am a great believer and practitioner of lasting friendships. But as I chart the course of my middle-aged life, I sometimes find it challenging tiding over the choppy waters of adulthood…

We have all experienced and witnessed instances of toxic masculinity in our real and reel lives. And increasingly so, in our popular culture, news, and social media in recent years. The…

A distant cousin of marriageable age on the lookout for an ideal match kept on ‘rejecting’ one marriage proposal after another. His mother, my aunt, who was both baffled and hassled at his…

A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for a house. She soon started panicking when she was unable to find a…

“Wintering is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress or cast into the role of an outsider.”

All the young and middle-aged married men I know whose wives died untimely, have remarried. On the other hand, all women in the same age group who had lost their husbands, are still single.…