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Frozen 2 review: Don’t let it go!
With Frozen 2 fever at its peak, I decided to make it my first movie in a theatre after three long years. That’s a story for another day. So here goes my two cents. Spoiler alert! Powerful message The storyline goes something like… We are all growing a little older and we must confront our […]
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Staying single, like a boss!
What does it take for a woman to stay single and stick to it? Does social pressure get the better of her every time? Let’s find out. It can be quite challenging to stick to the ‘single woman’ status in the patriarchal world that we live in. Oh yes, I mean to be a female […]
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Inside an unmarried mother’s life: Part 2
This is the concluding part of our interview with 25-year-old Harshala, entrepreneur, founder of A Week In Life, student and a single unmarried mother of a 4-year-old daughter. For Part 1, click here. How has motherhood changed your relationship with men around you? I was a victim of sexual assault by my babysitter’s husband and […]
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Inside an unmarried mother’s life – Part 1
Single. Unmarried. And now a mother? What a perfect recipe for some gossip and judgment right? That’s how we have been taking care of our single unmarried mothers for many years now. The most common perception is that these girls make hasty decisions, which is why they end up getting into these situations in the […]
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Five ways to be a responsible netizen in these turbulent times
Are you a responsible netizen or do you let your biases reflect in the way you share news? How can we engage in a more positive way on social media, even when we don’t agree with each other? As millennials begin to take over major decision-making positions all over the world, it is equally important […]
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Five offbeat gift ideas for siblings this Rakhi
Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi, a festival that celebrates siblings, strengthens the bond as we express our love in the form of gifts. This year, think different and try these cool gift ideas for your loved ones. It doesn’t matter whether you are an adult or a child, everyone loves a thoughtful present. And when it’s […]
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A father’s poem turns into an online campaign for parents
When a dad blogger shared the poem he had penned down for his daughter on Instagram, it started the #lettertomykid campaign. It’s hard to find dad bloggers, but when you do find one who’s questioning the status quo, one social media post at a time, you get curious. That’s what led us to Aashish Agrawal, […]
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Friendship Day confessions
Celebrating Friendship Day means getting in touch with friends, old and new, and expressing our love right? But this time, we thought it might also be a good day to confess. Three of our bloggers come together to share friendship lessons they learnt for life. ‘My immaturity made me a bad friend‘ Dearest Neeti, As […]
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IVF: A mother shares her journey
For some women, getting pregnant can feel like war, and when it’s through the In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) method, there are additional battles to fight. Pregnancy brings with itself joy, hope and also pain. The pain is either physical or/and emotional. Just like each body is different, every pregnancy also differs from woman to woman. And […]
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To read or not to read
In today’s digital age, with hundreds of apps that can track your pregnancy and thousands of books to prepare for the life-changing decision, the more pertinent question is whether to read everything available to us or not. Pregnancy brings with itself a lot of changes in the body and the mind. And if you have […]
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Defining supermoms
How does one describe a super mom? In the month that celebrates mothers, I came across something that made me think about the “ordinary” moms in our lives and what makes them super. Two weeks ago, a simple and innocent post on a social media group made me ponder over the moms I consider SUPER […]
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Let’s talk, Ma
How working on a blog post for Mother’s Day brought me closer to my mother When I first started working on this blog two weeks back, my aim was to get mothers and daughters talk to each other. Oh yes we talk all the time, but not on the topics I had in mind. To […]
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