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Why we need a #Misogyny Alert hashtag on the net If you are a woman with an opinion on the online space, there is every chance that you will have been subject to some sort of misogynistic abuse. On twitter, … Continue reading →

..this could probably be the title of my next book. I need to get down to writing it. That of course, would be possible if I got some time to myself between doing school and pool pick up and drop … Continue reading →

It must be old age, what else can explain that I completely forget for an entire week to cross link the Tehelka post here. Anyway, as the popular kahaawat goes, der aaye durust aaye, durustly presenting my post of February … Continue reading →

Last evening, I was scheduled to be on a concall with the very charming Faisal Qureshi of PTV for a show on VAW in the subcontinent in time for the One Billion Rising. Given that all that was rising at … Continue reading →

This Saturday, I made that dreaded long trip into town after yonks. I said my tearful goodbyes to friends and family, packed life essentials, and loaded myself into the car. I was scheduled to be on the panel at Altering … Continue reading →

If you’ve been reading the other blog, you would know that the child is now enrolled, kicking and screaming, in an advanced professional swimming batch, the kind that has scarily earnest moms writing down timings of every lap their child … Continue reading →

…was great fun. What made it even more fun was the fact that this was the first time Preeti and I were meeting in the flesh. We had connected over the blogs and via twitter and when we finally met … Continue reading →

Let’s start by calling it Street Sexual Harassment Illustration: Samia Singh If you are a woman reading this, raise your hand if you’ve never been groped, molested, whistled at, had lewd comments passed at you or stalked on the streets … Continue reading →

Thanks to crazy things happening like for instance, becoming a cave woman and withdrawing from all forms of socialising, my lunching out has become a bit of an annual affair in recent times. Therefore when the fabulous @WeAreMumbai announced a … Continue reading →