This thought-provoking piece explores parenting beyond restrictions, arguing that children need responsibility, emotional resilience and critical thinking to navigate relationships, rejection, peer pressure and digital spaces. It stresses consent, boundaries, accountability and gender equality, while cautioning against victim-blaming. Ultimately, it calls for raising children who can make responsible choices when parents aren’t around.
Self-care is often mistaken for selfishness, especially by women conditioned to prioritise everyone else. This reflective piece explores embracing the unfettered 40s, rediscovering oneself through travel, art and solitude, and learning to let go of expectations. It is a gentle reminder to listen to your soul, protect your wellbeing and choose yourself.
Drawing from counselling sessions with distressed mothers, this article explores the growing challenges of parenting in a rapidly changing world. While children deserve empathy for their emotional struggles, parents need understanding too. True healing lies in mutual respect, compassion, and shared responsibility, rather than placing the burden solely on one generation
Actor Shahana Goswami’s remarks on consensual open relationships spark a thoughtful reflection on modern love, commitment and intimacy. As relationship norms evolve, this article explores whether love expands through multiple romantic connections or deepens through commitment, questioning how trust, emotional presence and meaningful relationships are sustained in today’s world.
Four friends attend a village wedding, unaware of a forbidden washroom’s dark past. When Shiuli ignores the warning, she encounters a terrifying face in the moonlight. The next day, she learns it is the spirit of a young bride who died tragically, still lingering in quiet, watchful silence.
Growing up on Lata Mangeshkar’s gentle love, I learnt devotion and restraint. But Asha Bhosle awakened a different truth – love could be bold, playful, sensuous, and self-assured. Her voice permitted me to feel deeply, desire freely, and embrace a fuller, more unapologetic version of womanhood and love.
A slice-of-life vignette that observes the gentle flow of a weekday morning, revealing the unnoticed details that make up everyday domestic life.
This essay explores modern love anxiety shaped by WhatsApp blue ticks. Unlike the patient waits of love letters, today’s silence triggers insecurity, self-doubt, and overthinking—especially for women seeking reassurance. It urges readers to stop chasing replies, value consistency, and choose self-respect and peace over digital uncertainty.
A daughter reflects on the profound life lessons inherited from her father—Baba—whose quiet strength, romantic heart, and unwavering forgiveness shaped her deeply. Through smiles, silence, gratitude, and resilience, he taught her to stay afloat in life. Though difficult to emulate fully, his legacy continues to guide and inspire her.
The movie Mrs critiques the quiet oppression in Indian marriages, where love is overshadowed by domestic servitude. Through Richa’s journey, it exposes gender roles, casual sexism, and the struggle for self-worth. A powerful reminder that real love empowers, not entraps—urging women to reclaim their identity beyond the kitchen and bedroom.
