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 candid late-life reflection follows a fiercely independent woman confronting her long-standing need for approval, revealing how unexpected reactions to personal success reshaped her boundaries, expectations, and relationship with her own joy.
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 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 slice-of-life vignette that observes the gentle flow of a weekday morning, revealing the unnoticed details that make up everyday domestic life.
Through vivid imagery and quiet reflection, this piece examines the contrast between the calm rhythms of daily life and the unsettling questions that linger beneath the surface.
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.
The article dismantles the myth that women dress or wear makeup for male approval. Drawing on psychology, research, and everyday logic, it argues that style is self-expression, confidence, and identity, not performance. Women’s appearance choices are personal, internal, and autonomous, reflecting empowerment rather than a bid for attention.
This reflective essay explores how love evolves, from youthful fantasies of grand gestures to the quiet strength of companionship and presence. It contrasts enduring partnerships with lonely, transactional modern relationships shaped by technology. Ultimately, it affirms that true love thrives on equality, emotional labour, and self-respect,culminating in the most powerful love story: choosing yourself.
