What’s In A Word? A Lot! by Elisa Patnaik February 22, 2022 Is a person who is called a - Businessman, Salesman, Chairman, Crewman, Foreman, Policeman, Postman - only male? And when... Read moreDetails
My Helpless Rage Against Rape by Elisa Patnaik February 16, 2022 As I turn the pages of the newspaper each day, not a single day passes without the reported news of... Read moreDetails
Visible Work Invisible Women by Elisa Patnaik February 9, 2022 ‘Visible Work, Invisible Women’ -- this profound title of a critically acclaimed photo exhibition by celebrated journalist P. Sainath, exemplifying... Read moreDetails
Intricacies Of Adulthood Friendships by Elisa Patnaik February 1, 2022 I am a great believer and practitioner of lasting friendships. But as I chart the course of my middle-aged life,... Read moreDetails
Battling Toxic Masculinity by Elisa Patnaik January 26, 2022 We have all experienced and witnessed instances of toxic masculinity in our real and reel lives. And increasingly so, in... Read moreDetails
Wanted Fair, Beautiful, Slim, Educated, Homely Girl… by Elisa Patnaik January 18, 2022 A distant cousin of marriageable age on the lookout for an ideal match kept on ‘rejecting’ one marriage proposal after... Read moreDetails
Being A Single Woman In India by Elisa Patnaik January 4, 2022 A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for... Read moreDetails
Wintering: A Rite of Passage by Elisa Patnaik December 28, 2021 “Wintering is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress... Read moreDetails
Why Widow Remarriage Is Still An Anathema? by Elisa Patnaik December 14, 2021 All the young and middle-aged married men I know whose wives died untimely, have remarried. On the other hand, all... Read moreDetails
The Power & Solidarity Of Female Friendships by Elisa Patnaik December 8, 2021 How I wish there was a special word for female friendships! To encompass the huge gamut of emotion, experience, support,... Read moreDetails