A personal essay on the life and struggles of women in large households, and how their labour is often overlooked.
Tag: women
I Got My Father’s Tongue
A poem on the struggles of growing up in a patriarchal family.
A Quiet Desire To Hold Hands
A poem reflecting on the structural exceptions placed on women, often without any value attached to the emotional labour they perform.
Sister-in-Sorrow
A poem on the struggles of women in a world that has privileged men for thousands of years.
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.
Swapped
A poem on the ideological divide between a husband and wife.
Emerging From the Cocoon
A poem on how society expects women to play small in order to be more 'desirable'.
Insecurities: A Mannequin’s Account
Of anxiety, overthinking and a constant need of validation.
Call Me Raju
This is the story of a woman who didn’t give up her name. A woman who never changed herself for anyone else. A woman who did not let her …