In Nilanjana Bhowmick's, 'Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden' the protagonists are middle-class women who have been lying to their daughters about 'having it all' with …
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Naani Takes Over the Narrative
A personal essay on the life and struggles of women in large households, and how their labour is often overlooked.
I Got My Father’s Tongue
A poem on the struggles of growing up in a patriarchal family.
In a Parallel Universe
A poem on how traditional ideas of motherhood in a patriarchal society can often alienate women from themselves.
What Our Mothers Never Said
There is no need to cheer on the compromises women make on an everyday basis at the cost of sabotaging themselves.