Continuing with International Women’s Day celebrations, the IKEA Foundation announced a new grant for €3.5 million for supporting its partner PRADAN with the success of women’s empowerment programme in India. PRADAN supports rural Indian women to organize strong self-help groups within their communities. Being in a group helps them voice their ...

While I was growing up, I had been observing different things and found them repulsive in various ways. Today, I am sharing a list of such myths prevalent in those days. 1. Soaps cannot get dirty: I saw this sentence as a joke in one of the leading newspapers when ...

On the International Woman’s Day, I would like to talk about people without a male child. Even in the 21st century, people talk about the requirement of the male child. The reason they say is for the parents’ last rites. But today, even women perform these essential requirements in everybody’s ...

Mom said, “Neeril kumizhi pol tonrinai. Kumizhi udaindadu pol udaindaye. Aiyaho! Yen manam kadarugirade. Gavanikkamal aagayatile parandu vittaye. Chandiranudan kalardu vittaya, nee? Aagayattil Munrampirai partal, nee dane ninaivil iruppai. Amma, enru chonnaye. Marandu vittaya, nee? En manam amaidi kollamal tavikkirade. En chaiven? Unnal verumai aakapatta idattai, meendum Sridevi aagave vandu ...

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Little children can be easily influenced by things and people around them. Sometimes they can become responsible for the abusive situations they or others might get into due to their behavior. I saw something recently that both embarrassed me and shook me up. A Journalist Reveals decided to consult a ...

His raised eyebrows sent chills up and down our spines! His persona evoked fear among the audience from 1936 to 1992. Actor Krishan Niranjan Singh or K N Singh was a villain par excellence. Today is his 18th death anniversary. Mom made me interview him when I was a mere ...

My paternal grandmother was a devotee of Vailankanni, though she was a Vashishta Madhwa Brahmin. She would always tell my Mom to visit Vailankanni when she went to Rameshwaram. Granma believed that Vailankanni as a form of our own Hindu Shakti Devi. Devotees of Vailankanni are present in every religion. ...

Today is our 69th Republic Day. On this day in 1950, we became a Sovereign Democratic Republic. Bharat Mata was in chains and she was partly freed on August 15, 1947. On this day 69 years back, all the chains were removed. Or that’s what we thought. But, no. Women ...

I often buy products online and I’ve been an Amazon regular. On a Sunday, we were expecting a packet. The doorbell rang and we saw a lady and her teenage daughter standing in front of us. The lady said that she had bought a packet ordered by me through Amazon. ...