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.
The pandemic left many students emotionally exhausted, isolated and overwhelmed. In this personal reflection, Sonali Swain shares how reading, writing and drawing helped her rediscover herself amid uncertainty. Through small acts of creativity and self-expression, she found healing, purpose and a renewed sense of identity during lockdown.
What begins as a simple evening to help a friend choose Valentine’s gifts slowly unfolds into something far more unsettling. Set in a time of landlines and quiet trust, this story lures you into familiarity, only to leave you questioning every detail. Read closely. Not everything is as innocent as it seems.
Savings and investing serve different financial purposes. Savings focus on safety, liquidity, and short-term needs, while investing aims at long-term wealth creation with higher risk and returns. A balanced approach, maintaining emergency savings and investing surplus funds, helps achieve financial security, growth, and stability over time through discipline and planning.
A reflective narrative explores subtle workplace inequality through everyday assumptions, revealing how polite questions and quiet expectations shape women’s careers, choices, and opportunities in ways that often go unnoticed.
A reflective journey traces the uneasy shift from small-town comfort to city independence, capturing early missteps, unexpected lessons, and how leaving home reshapes confidence, responsibility, and lifelong friendships.
A reflection on unlearning the social conditioning many girls grow up with, celebrating women who challenge expectations, redefine roles, and inspire others to claim their space with courage and conviction.
A sociological look at denim, exploring how one fabric travelled through different historical moments and social contexts to become a familiar part of wardrobes across the world.
Theme for 2026 When I sat down to write this piece, out of plain curiosity, I googled the theme for this year’s Women’s Day. It
Echoing Virginia Woolf’s words, the article revisits the erased legacies of Indian scientists Bibha Chowdhuri, Kamala Sohonie, and Rajeshwari Chatterjee. Despite pioneering contributions to physics, biochemistry, and engineering, they faced systemic gender bias and invisibility. Recovering their HERstories challenges patriarchal narratives and restores women to India’s scientific history.
