⚔️Is a woman another woman’s worst enemy?

Kicking in the new year by exploring if the popular adage "aurat hi aurat ki sabse badi dushman hoti hai" has any truth to it. Hello ji, Happy Another Revolution Around the Sun to our planet! Please accept the only New Year gift I can give to you - a cool GIF. Earth and Venus...

🌹What is in a name? Khaandaan ki saari izzat, apparently.

The socio-political mess that is our names, surnames, and our children's surnames. Hello ji, This week has been a revelation in my own inbox. Among the many (so many!) forms of discipline I lack, is the discipline of checking my emails regularly. Last weekend, I found time to do some end-of-year virtual housekeeping. I call...

Subtle Sexism, and other lessons we teach our kids

Children have some questions for us. Even if they aren't asking. Hello ji, I have a two-year-old and we play nursery rhymes for him sometimes. Okay, that was a lie. I have a two-year-old and he makes us play nursery rhymes ALL. THE. TIME. till our ears bleed and all our dreams become endless loops of “wheels...

Hello ji: Girls’ trips through a man’s eyes

The Womaning Talks, Edition 2. Hello ji, Welcome to the second edition of Hello ji: The Womaning Talks. This week, I spoke with three youngsters - Anvi, Arushi, and Puneet - about the stark differences between the male and female experience of public spaces. The idea for this conversation came up when Puneet told me...

Happy Men’s Day (Part Two)

Destroying the fabric of society, one dirty diaper at a time. Hello ji, As promised, here is Part 2 of the ongoing Men's Day festivities here at Womaning in India. Those of you who missed it can go back and read Part 1 here, in which women shared the stories of men in their lives who...

Happy Men’s Day (Part One)

We see you, good men of the world. Hello ji, So coming up soon is Men’s Day (19 November). I, of course, have some feelings about there being a day dedicated to the people who run all of the other days. But I am going to keep those feelings aside for this piece. Things have...

Happy Birthday, Womaning! 🎂

The origin story and a birthday podcast! Hello ji, I am beyond excited to be finally posting, as promised, the official one-year anniversary special kamaal dhamaal grand golden bonanza post of Womaning in India. The origin story One year back - on December 4, 2020 to be precise - I hit ‘Publish’ on the first Womaning post....

Hello ji: Womaning Talks #1

Menstruation jokes are not funny. Period. Hello ji, Next week’s post will officially be Womaning in India’s one-year anniversary post. I feel overwhelmed with all the love you have sent my way in the past year. And although just thinking about it makes me want to write a love saga for you, I will park...

Lamps, lights, and limitless labour

The family that eats together... actually doesn't Hello ji, Men, I hope you had a great festive weekend. I hope you got to see loved ones.I hope your house was lit up with pretty lights and lamps.I hope the house was sparkling clean and there was a colourful rangoli gracing your doorstep.I hope the food...

Why women over-apologize and men under-apologize

I'm sorry but can I just say something? Hello ji, A few years back, a male colleague and I worked together in the same team, in almost exactly the same role. I would notice a lot of differences in the way we handled things and truly learned a lot from him in the process. Here...