The simple fact is that people are good or bad at dealing with financial matters; gender has very little to do with it. But that's not something that society seems comfortable with.

After the second child, I thought I had arrived where life wanted me to be. I was completely exhausted by now, I had no strength or energy to carry on. But then, "You have to work on your children!"

‘Coming out as Dalit' should be mandatory reading for all Indians, because we need to understand that the caste system is still alive, and that by merely pretending it is no longer relevant, we cannot wish it away.

My doctor made a snide remark about how my mother or grandmother bore the pain, then why was I being a 'delicate darling'. After all 'real mothers' bear the 'real' pain and that's what motherhood is all about.

Hathras court acquittal of rape accused shows how the system continues to oppress Dalit women in India to this date.