HeartFelt

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...

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 we...

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...

‘Visible Work, Invisible Women’ -- this profound title of a critically acclaimed photo exhibition by celebrated journalist P. Sainath, exemplifying the great range of work done by rural women in...

A distant cousin of marriageable age on the lookout for an ideal match kept on ‘rejecting’ one marriage proposal after another. His mother, my aunt, who was both baffled and...

A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for a house. She soon started panicking when she was unable...

“Wintering is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress or cast into the role of an outsider.”

My son as a four-year-old used to regale us with a popular Hindi poem: Mummy ki Roti gol, gol, Papa ka Paisa gol gol. Not discounting his endearing recital, I...

How I wish there was a special word for female friendships! To encompass the huge gamut of emotion, experience, support, strength and sharing that connotes female friendships. Somehow, all the...

It was more than a decade ago and I was travelling in a bus from Bhubaneswar to Puri for a work assignment. A middle-aged lady sitting next to me began...