HeartFelt

I am just back from my annual pilgrimage to the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), soaked with a delectable and eclectic mix of literature, art and music. I am charged with...

Relive an entire day in the life of a woman in a city or try to imagine one. Right from leaving the house, waiting for public transport in a bus...

Men peeing in the open is a common everyday sight in India. Most of the men even do it with gay abandon, caring two hoots for decency and propriety, carrying...

The month of December is unique in several ways. As the last month of the year, it not only makes us reflect, assess and ponder on the year about to...

Whenever I attend workshops and seminars on gender equality, a common refrain expressed by participants and media persons is why blame patriarchy for gender inequality when in fact, women are...

When Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud recently said that the structure of legal profession is “feudal, patriarchal and not accommodating of women” and that there is a need...

When the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently announced equal match fee for both female and male centrally-contracted players to promote gender equality by implementing a pay...

It’s one of the commonest and routine experiences that girls and women go through in public places, educational institutes, offices and also in domestic spaces. An everyday occurrence happening in...

A few years back we were shooting a video to document existing sanitation behaviours among households in Odisha. During the shoot in a village close to Bhubaneswar, we interviewed the...

The other day I was waiting to take the office lift in the lobby. As soon as the door opened, I found a broad-framed guy in the lift almost blocking...