Do Cliques Really Click With Men? Are cliques just limited for women? Simply put, absolutely not! Friendships can and are usually formed when there is mutual affection between people, a stronger sense of interpersonal bond, intimacy and trust. When such friends interact with one another in a group and the people who have similar interests […]
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Kukari ki Rasam: The Virginity Test For Women’s Purity What’s the worth of a woman’s ‘purity?’ It’s an interesting question because of its absolute absurdity. It wants to quantify an abstract concept in monetary terms only to use it as a weapon against a newlywed. It unpacks several stigmas in society against sexual liberation and
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Excerpt – Be it the uniform policing of every school girl ever, body shaming women, costume shaming of the women’s sports team, or taking control of Britney Spears’ autonomy — women are dehumanized, sexualized, and disrespected day in and day out.
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The Bloody Debate: Both Sides Of The Period Leave Policy We can all agree that periods are a subjective experience in themselves, not all women experience periods alike. Some women have heavy periods, while some women have light periods; others may have periods that last a week and some women have periods that last 3
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Mere Paas Maa Hai: A Single Mother’s Narrative From Hindi Cine-Maa The feeble mother donning a white saree, roped and helpless but sanguine about her virtuous son’s impending arrival to the ruffian’s lair was the first impression of a single mother that gave the classic name to this character as Cine-Maa. A single mother in old
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Quaran-tame: Behind the Doors of a Lockdown The conversation around the possible rise in cases of domestic violence stirred when the concept of a world-wide lockdown was still embryonic, and that possibility came true with the number of cases hitting its all-time high. Strict rules of quarantine were imposed to isolate and protect people from
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So-cite-all misfits? Every pubescent girl and woman of slightly older age groups are expected to Stayfree, but they are still Whispering (pun intended!) While menstruating is a monumental achievement that tells a girl she has transformed into a woman, for the society and the girl’s parents, she has entered a dangerous stage for the rest of her
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Golden Girls: Tipping The Sex Ratio Scale Sex ratio is exactly what it reads as, the ratio of males to females in a population which ideally should be 1:1 but is never so depending on several factors. We as humans are not only affected by biology but also by society and culture and thus get
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