OH MY GOD, It’s 7:05. I’m already late. I rush through my morning routine as fast as I can. I pull my rather crumpled hoodie over my night shirt to make it look like I’m wearing the school uniform. I […]
Exactly two months ago, a young girl in Hathras, Bihar was brutally assaulted and killed and the police had nothing to do or say about it. Apart from the appalling sexism in India, this particular issue unraveled into the overruled […]
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”-Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant was one of the most successful and lethal professional basketball players in the world, who was also known as the Black Mamba by […]
6:55 AM: My phone buzzes loudly with the sound of my alarm which has been snoozed innumerable times. I stumble out of bed, woken up by the cacophony, haphazardly put on my white shirt – misbuttoned of course – and […]
“The lion in a circus learns that he needs to sit on the chair if his owner has a whip in his hand. But that lion is called well-trained, not well-educated.” – Ranchoddas Chanchad, 3 Idiots (2009) In the last […]
“The day women can walk safely at night, that day we can say India has achieved independence” – Mahatma Gandhi 4,05,861. That’s the number of ‘registered’ rape cases in India. 16. That’s the number of girls that get raped in […]