The Guilt of a Working Mom
A working mother can be competent, committed, and deeply loving, and still feel the quiet guilt of missing things, choosing things, and never being fully where she is expected to be.
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Women’s Stories
Women’s Stories is where everyday life shows what women learn to notice, carry, soften, question, and sometimes quietly refuse. These pieces are about identity, safety, self-image, reputation, work, family, ageing, and the expectations that arrive long before we have words for them.
This is a category for personal essays about womanhood without performance, perfection, or easy conclusions.
What you’ll find in these posts
- Personal essays on womanhood and identity
- Stories about safety, self-image, motherhood, work, and everyday expectations
- Reflections on the quiet negotiations women make in ordinary life
Start with my favourites
- What It Actually Means to Be a Woman Today
- The Real Girl Math
- Women: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves
Read the latest Women’s Stories
Self Love, Not Self Critique
A WhatsApp conversation about body shapes and clothes becomes a larger question about how quickly women turn awareness into criticism, and why self-love needs more room than self-correction.
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6 Tips on Getting Back to Work post Maternity Leave
Becoming a mother is one of the most overwhelming experiences in a woman’s life. Once you have popped the baby out and gone through the joys and struggles of being a new mum, the pregnancy is long forgotten. Your days and nights blend into one. Time is now measured in terms of feeding, nap and
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What is the Big Deal about Period Leave?
Period leave should have been a simple conversation about pain, rest, and choice. Instead, it became another place where women were expected to prove strength by pretending their bodies were not asking for help.
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What is Appropriate Makeup?
What is Appropriate Makeup? I always get miffed by people who judge women based on their choice to wear makeup or not. The feminist in me says that every woman should be allowed to do what she wants. That said, I firmly believe that there is a time and place for everything and anyone exercising
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Roles Women Play – Career Woman #WomensDay
In my second post on the Roles Women Play, I want to talk about the role of a career woman. I have shared my thoughts about women at work during the A2Z blogging challenge of professional life. In my corporate career I have come across many women; several of them I like, few I admire,
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Roles Women Play – Mother #WomensDay
Every year as March rolls in, tons and tons of blog posts, articles and videos begin to circulate the net about challenges a woman faces. All of it sounds cliched but then there is a contant need to remind ourselves that feminsm exists because women’s issues do. They do need to be talked about so
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Drape A Smile – A JAMM’s Social Initiative
JAMM’s now brings Drape A Smile – their fifth Social Initiative. After Step Up and iLight, they are now collecting 910 saris to commemorate the 910 days that JAMM’s network has been in existence. I am sure that like me, you too have some saris tucked in to the back of your closet or under your
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#KarwaChauth… Regression or Choice?
From the last few years Indian social media and even mainstream media sometimes goes crazy every October. The reason… the big KC. KarwaChauth…. Those who call it regressive, do not understand that celebrating festivals and observing fasts is about the sentiment and the gesture. All festivals are symbolic then why the big hullabaloo for KarwaChauth
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Whisper Ultra Clean Review
I do a lot of reviews on this blog. Beauty products, subscription boxes, books and heck… I have even reviewed a laundry service. I would never buy a lipstick without reading a review and yet when it comes to something like a sanitary pad, I have never bothered looking for a review online. Out of curiosity,
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