One of the first practising women doctors in colonial India, Rukhmabai contested her husband’s claim to conjugal rights in a revolutionary court case that led to the passage of the Age of Consent Act in 1891.

Do you still think independence, is a thing like a permission slip that you give your girls? Isn't independence her birthright?

Household chores or earning for the home, work is work be it at home or office, how does it matter who does what as long as it is shared?

“I am looking pretty, aren’t I? Please ward off the evil eyes away from me too, Maasi”.  But all my maasi did was smile and cup my face before waving at someone to initiate a conversation with them instead of warding any evil eye off me!

I let my husband go to his workplace with a tear in his shirt. I saw it. I still did not pester him to change the shirt, so I can sew the tear. He was okay with it. He did not give two hoots about it. So I decided to not give two hoots about it either.