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\”My husband does not want me to work….but I don\’t feel like sitting at home when even I can earn to help raise my kids….\”;these were the words of wisdom spoken by my maid hired for domestic help. It was impossible for me to believe that she was the same girl who had refused to…
A world where deaths due to natural disasters are on an all time low; and crime rates have dropped considerably. Where nearly as many girls complete primary education as boys. Where child mortality is on an all time low and life expectancy on an all time high; where vast majority of children are vaccinated. A…
Rectangular couplet Edges round, Frame bound; To fit smugly on face.. Connecting bridge In purple tint With a faint glint; To rest deftly on nasal base… Two long arms Fine lines With steep inclines; Sitting delicately on aural curve… Dynamic hinges Making arms part And yet remain taut; Making them spring with verve.. Twin overhangs…
Aparna looked at serpentine line of cars ahead of hers and sighed. Today the evening traffic was heavier than usual. At this rate it would take her approximately 40 min to reach home, she calculated. Just as she stopped at a heavily congested traffic signal yet again, her phone rang loudly… A call at this…
Sarayu looked back twice to see that no one was following her. The familiar roads leading to their house wore a deserted look. She walked briskly towards the banyan tree about ten yards from the biggest house of the village. It was 3.25 a.m. Susheela had sent her a note through one of the trust…
Ila looked at the watch again. Two hours had passed. What could they be talking about? She fidgeted with the magazine in hand. She had walked in and out of her best friend’s clinic waiting for her innumerable times before, but today it seemed different to her somehow. The white walls and sparse furnishing gave…
He reads his own published poem to his wife. She lovingly disapproves of his pen name. A little later they are at a wedding. She smiles at his efforts at dancing. He makes his way quietly behind his wife while posing for a family photo. Much later in the film, after the family has slowly…
I wanted to watch this film since a long time but was a little hesitant because knowing the subject I felt it might be depressing. But nothing prepared me for this little gem of a movie… It is easily one of the most sensitively made, thought-provoking, deeply affecting superbly written and crafted movies I have…
With this movie I have truly become a Vidya Balan fan…I know she is a great actress with line up of some amazing movies in her kitty but it takes talent of another level to play a character like this and make the audience fall in love with her. She has failed 12th standard 3…
Feminism is a very often a highly misunderstood/ misused term or concept. In this very well written book Adichie takes the core idea behind feminism ( equality of sexes)as the basis and throws light on what we can do as parents to inculcate these values in our children so that they accept it as a…