‘Visible Work, Invisible Women’ -- this profound title of a critically acclaimed photo exhibition by celebrated journalist P. Sainath, exemplifying...

I am a great believer and practitioner of lasting friendships. But as I chart the course of my middle-aged life,...

We have all experienced and witnessed instances of toxic masculinity in our real and reel lives. And increasingly so, in...

A distant cousin of marriageable age on the lookout for an ideal match kept on ‘rejecting’ one marriage proposal after...

A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for...

“Wintering is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress...

All the young and middle-aged married men I know whose wives died untimely, have remarried. On the other hand, all...

How I wish there was a special word for female friendships! To encompass the huge gamut of emotion, experience, support,...

It was more than a decade ago and I was travelling in a bus from Bhubaneswar to Puri for a...

We have seen our own mothers, aunts and other female relatives and acquaintances surrendering the most productive years of their...