Men are always asking other people the secrets to a successful relationship with a woman, or what do women think of X (enter your own variable).
Maiden name and the patriarchy
There’s this dialogue from the Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi starrer, Hamari Adhuri Kahani that I think is incredibly important and it needs to...
Do what makes you feel alive
What’s more difficult: Loving someone that’s so wrong for you or leaving that person because you know it’s the right thing to do?
Why Loiter: loitering as a politics of citizenship for women
#WhyLoiter’s agenda is to create an awareness that women do and indeed should access the city for fun, without purpose. It intends to make the...
Film Festival Diary: Accsex – a warm, intelligent film about sexuality and disability
This is the fourth in a series of posts on films shown at the First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities
My Parents; Their Sacrifice
We all know that it’s in a parent’s nature to sacrifice their happiness for their child, but to what extent does that go? How much can a parent...
Film Festival Diary: three films about blindness that will challenge old assumptions
This is the third in a series of posts on films shown at the First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities. The Festival...
Film Festival Diary: Mahesh Limaye’s Yellow, and thoughts on representation
This is the second in a series of posts on films shown at the First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities. The Festival...
Advice I’d Give To My 18 Year Old Self
Your teenage years are extremely confusing and stressful – you’re going through puberty, you have to make life changing decisions about your...