Category: Persona – Women’s World

Three generation women lived together – grandmother, mother and daughter. There was no male member in the house since quite some years and was an exclusive female household. The two…Continue reading“All women households”- 25 January 2012

‘I have never been to my elder daughter’s house for a night stay so how can I come and stay at your house’, stated the Mother to her younger daughter…Continue reading“How can I stay at my daughters’ home?”- 4 January 2012

She missed working and felt aggrieved that she would soon turn into some kind of a vegetable that she was chopping whole day in the kitchen. How awful and what…Continue reading“Work Life Balance”- 21 December 2011

  In my column last fortnight I had mentioned the NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) 2010 report, published in September 2011, highlighting the unfortunate fate of women who lost their…Continue reading“Agni Pariksha of Housewives”- 30 November 2011

I am no good with facts and figures. Statistics was never my cup of tea. For they say, figures state much but do not reveal the exact picture. Also the…Continue reading“Death by Fire and Housewife Suicides”- 16 November 2011

Today’s generation wants freedom- freedom to live their lives as they perceive it and as they want it. To exaggerate a little, they want it totally their way. This developing…Continue reading“A lesson for mothers-in-law”- 2 November 2011

Ask any father and he will tell you how wonderful daughters are, caring, loving, doting, idolising father as ‘My Papa Mama the best’. And yet, Indian social thinkers have found…Continue readingNeeded a ‘Save the woman’ movement- 28 September 2011

All of us knew Sheila as a reticent girl, unwilling to make friends, not ready to participate in group activity, staying on the sidelines all the time. With her close…Continue reading“Building inner strength” – 7 September 2011

It certainly was good news that Union Cabinet passed a resolution to move a Bill in Parliament to make 50% reservation for women in Panchayat Raj Institutions. This means that…Continue reading“Women aren’t smokescreen of men’s politics”- 17 August 2011

When Nileema Mishra met the group of visitors to her Bhagini Nivedita Gramin Vigyan Niketan in the small village of Bahadarpur in Maharashtra, she did not know the purpose of…Continue reading“Of virtue and women”- 3 August 2011