HeartFelt

Imagine an all-female adda or an all-girls khatti closer to home in Odisha. It’s a socio-cultural practice where girls and women gather in the mornings or evenings in street corners,...

Age is just a number – Is it true for women? Aging like fine wine - Do women have the freedom to experience this? Never ask a woman her age...

When I gifted a purplish pink sweater to my domestic help’s three-year-old son, he responded sulkily, “I don’t like this colour. Pink is for girls!” When I cajoled him by...

Our first impressions of others are formed instantaneously and are supposedly accurate, as far as we are concerned. It’s complex too. Sometimes, it’s like a kaleidoscope, quickly forming and shifting...

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...

Thirty-four-year-old Shraddha Pattnayak, a Project Manager with a leading consulting firm has been working from home since the COVID pandemic with periodic visits to her project locations and office as...

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....

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...

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...

 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,...