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Of Curvy Women And Rugged Men: The Endless Search For ‘Ideal’ And ‘Desirable’...
By Shambhavi Saxena: Various forms of media have prescribed to us, a set body image to adhere to. For women, it is a flat stomach, fair skin with no traces of stretch-marks, an arched back to emphasize...
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Are ‘Sexpert’ Columns The Only Options Left For Our Deepest, Most Intimate...
By Kirrat Sachdeva: As soon as I hit my 20s, the adolescence that I had barely emerged from became the very center of amusing conversations. These throwback conversations were largely centered on how...
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Caught In A Knot: Why You Can’t Ignore Child Marriages Around You
By Naomi Hazarika: Not only do hundreds of young children in India get married forcefully behind closed doors, on one day, massive numbers of such marriages take place right there out in the open with...
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Porn, For All Its Pleasures, Is Not Reality. It’s Entertainment
By Karthik Shankar: It was fifth grade; the time of hopeless misinformation and burgeoning puberty. The mornings were reserved for droning lectures that put us to sleep but our lunch hours were...
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‘I Am A Woman, And I Masturbate. Stop Demonising Me For It’
By Nishtha Relan: I have faint memories of my mother telling me, when I was a kid, to not touch my privates unnecessarily. Like a lot of my friends I have discussed this with, I don’t remember when...
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Years Of Sexual Abuse In A Family, The Collective Angst, And A Final Closure:...
Submitted Anonymously: Last year in August, my paternal grandfather (dada) passed away. I was shocked at the pure occurrence of this eventuality translating into a reality; an end, that all members of...
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156 Million Men Alive Today Were Child Grooms! Here’s The Story Of One
By Trishla Singh: He was all of 18 when his mother arranged his marriage. According to her, she found a reasonable match, and that came with an unreasonable dowry. I am talking about the eldest son of...
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Movie Magic To Spread Maternal Health Awareness In Odisha – It Works!
By Savvy Soumya Misra: “Agar biwi bolegi toh karwa loonga”, (If my wife tells me I will get it done) says Dashrathi Mullick on a little prodding. Dashrathi is talking about vasectomy. He was taken...
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The Vicious Circle: As Brides Get ‘Imported’, The Child Trafficking Racket...
By Abhishek Jha: Preeti (name changed) is a student from the seventh grade. She is an eager student. But her father is ill and consequentially, her family is mired in poverty. A neighbour suggests that...
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Why Is Menstruation A Woman’s ‘Worst Kept Secret’?
Submitted Anonymously: Menstruation was a very confusing experience for me when I was growing up. The reason I term it ‘confusing’ is because just after my menarche, my mother had had an open...
View ArticleWhat Is It Like To Be Married Off At 13? Let These 2 Women Tell You!
By Akhil Kumar: India is home to 1 in 3 child brides across the globe, and has the 3rd highest number of women married under 15 years of age! Many of us living in urban spaces might not fully realize...
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I Wish He Had Respected My ‘No’ In The First Place
Submitted Anonymously: I met this guy through a friend and we hit it off well. Numbers were exchanged and we chatted and flirted for the next few days. Next we met at a party in a club. I was...
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In Rajasthan, A Traditional Evil That Is Robbing Girls Of Their Childhood
By Shambhavi Saxena: The same year in which the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (2006) surfaced, 14-year-old Roshan Bairwa outright refused to be given as a child bride. “If I married, the doors...
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From Risky Deliveries At Home To Securing Health Benefits – Women In Jahangirpur
By Ajitha Menon: Kishanganj - Masooma Begum had her first child at 16. That was in early 2012. Even today, the horror of that experience is clearly etched in her mind. Emotionally vulnerable and...
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A Boy And His Closet: My Coming Out Story
Submitted Anonymously: “So how did you figure out that you’re …gay?” The first time someone asked me this, I was in the 10th grade and I had just come out to my best friend. We had a free study period...
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How A Unique Initiative Is Empowering Girls In Odisha To Say NO To Untimely...
By Sarada Lahangir: Kandhamal - Last year, Sujata Behera, 17, a Dalit girl from Dankeni, a remote village in Kandhamal district of Odisha, did the unthinkable. Just two weeks before her upcoming...
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Terence Lewis Tells You Why Not To Dance At These Weddings
By Akhil Kumar: Did you know that 720 million women alive today were married before the age of 18?! Is it any wonder then, that India has the 2nd highest number of child marriages in the world? In...
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India Wins In Cricket And Loses Out On Education
By Amit Sengupta: I am sure you all are pretty hooked on to your TV sets, smartphones and the social media to get latest updates of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. India’s swashbuckling win over...
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How We Stopped A 13-Year-Old Girl’s Marriage To A 44-Year-Old Man
By Veda Nadendla: She is 13 and her parents have decided that it is time for her to be married. Her intended is a man in his 40s, addicted to drugs and alcohol. What’s most comforting for her parents...
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How Motherhood Is No Longer The “Frightful Experience It Used To Be” In These...
By Sarada Lahangir: Kandhamal – Binita Kanhara, 32, a tribal woman from Rajikakhol village in Chakapada block of Kandhamal district in Odisha was very happy the day she learnt that she was expecting...
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