Category: Persona – Women’s World

At last the giant Central Board of Secondary Education has woken up to the reality of teaching girls self defence through martial arts at school level. Many of us have…Continue reading“Self defense- the need of the times”- 23 September 2015.

My last column on “Own your single status” seems to have touched the nerves of a few men in a raw way. I am not unfamiliar with hate mails from…Continue reading“Flying solo–being responsible for self and entitled too”- 8 September 2015.

A young mom proudly stated that she was single. She was a mother to a four year old girl child and was an entrepreneur herself. She was self employed at…Continue reading“Own your single status”- 26 August 2015.

This is a great message that I saw on Face-book. Girls are coining such slogans and making posters out of them to spread awareness about their sense of identity. This is…Continue reading“Do not tell your girls not to go out. Tell your boys to behave well”-15 July 2015.

Have you ever seen a sign saying “DOWRY FREE ZONE”! That was an amazing piece of information for me. We thought dowry was a lost issue and women of India…Continue reading“Big step of woman and small leap for women-kind”- 1 July 2015.

I have little patience with women who treat their careers casually. It has taken a long time for a woman to be taken seriously at the work place, says the…Continue reading“Creating newer images”- 17 June 2015.

Subsequent to my last column on the 11 year olds working on a project on ‘equality’, I witnessed their exhibition held in their school in Dubai. It was an exciting…Continue reading“Stop judging me and start loving me”- 3 June 2015.

A group of school girls were working on a class project on ‘inequality’ and it was very interesting to watch them in action. It became more interesting for me for…Continue reading“Gender equality and 11 year olds”- 20 May 2015.

Man has a tremendous arrogance about him. He thinks he was ‘born to rule the world’ and he also thinks that the woman is ‘born to serve him’. The woman…Continue reading“Men and their mindsets- III”- 22 April 2015.

A young working mother had to take a turn in doing a night shift at her organisation. It was imperative as she had to relieve a colleague. She had taken…Continue reading“Mindsets of men -2”- 7 April 2015.