By living life mostly on her terms, my mother taught me to do the same. I inherited her intensity, her self assurance, stubbornness and assertion, and I learnt later that she was insanely proud of me.

We often see motherhood as a switch that changes women. But it is a developmental passage called Matrescence that is far more complex.

It struck me how it is a role reversal of sorts when children get older and are ready to advise Mom and teach her things that she never knew before.

Mothers and daughters can have one of the strongest bonds. So mother daughter duos at work make for a truly powerful team. Here are a few.

We decided to launch “Dadiamma”, my mother’s brand of homemade, preservative-free jams and jellies made from jaggery. As I write this piece, my children and their grandmother are busy putting stickers on the jam bottles.