Elisa Patnaik

They are not afraid to speak their mind. They make themselves heard. They are the ‘trouble makers.’ They are Unapologetic and Defiant. They are ‘Outrageous’ and Inconvenient for their family…

Every morning, apart from my steaming mug of tea and the daily newspapers, there’s something else that I now eagerly look forward to - the immensely popular word puzzle Wordle. Also, on days…

For the first time in Odisha, there were an almost equal number of women candidates contesting the recently concluded rural and urban elections in the state. Likewise, the elections also saw…

At a recent get-together, a young relative who works in one of the topmost corporate firms expressed his bewilderment at the continuing farmer’/agricultural labourers’ suicides in the…

I used to love playing Holi for hours together as a child in our residential campus. But as I grew up, I started getting distinctly uncomfortable with the practice of playing Holi in large…

It was past eight in the evening and I had a deadline to meet. It had been a busy and demanding day, both at work and home, and my brain had started to fog. I decided to take a small break…

 Women’s lives are complex. And Being a woman is not always easy. But would we have it any other way? Absolutely not! Despite the age-old gender biases, discrimination, multiple roles,…

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…