Women’s bodies have always constituted the canvas on which the scripts of patriarchy had been violently inscribed, resulting in their historical exclusion from the sphere of production and subjugation in the domestic sphere. Feminists had been up in arms against the oppressive structures, employing multiple strategies to challenge the hierarchies that enforce the exclusion of…
Category: Health and Welbeing
Impermanence: The Sacred Truth of Life and Simple Ways To Accept Change
The only thing constant in this word is change. That’s the best way to define impermanence. To some, this statement may sound rhetorical, to others it may sound self-contradictory. But when I first came across it, I was left amazed by its veracity. I realised how often we forget this idea while going about doing…
Uphaar Tragedy: Where are We Now After 25 Years?
Netflix India recently released a series on Uphaar Tragedy that happened 25 years ago in Delhi. It is regarded as one of the most horrific events to have taken place in our country that resulted in death of 59 people. The Netflix series brought back the wounds of that doomsday and the delay in justice which experts…
Online Dating And Heartbreaks: Simple Reasons Why Cyber Security Can Be an Avenger in Disguise
Online dating has become an important part of our life now a days. But this virtual lifestyle has ignited several security concerns. This blog critically explores such issues from different aspects. Humans have evolved and so are the ways to mate. Dating has been a fascinating term for people of third world countries before Sitcoms…
Restlessness: A Prelude to Extreme Human Emotions and Simple Ways to Deal With It
Restlessness is not an emotion. It’s a state of mind that can trigger emotions of varying levels and is often associated with situations whenever something different is about to happen. It is manifested in both past as well as in the future, and depending on the situation, its magnitude and affect on our mind can…
Meditation and The Flow of Life: Simple Ways To Improve Mental Health
Life has its own rhythm. A flow of its own. When we train the mind through meditation, we are committing to listening to that rhythm, to be an active participant in the unfolding of time. This is how we start taking baby steps towards improving our mental health. But for most of us, as we…
My state of mind: A photo-essay
The state of mind has always been challenging to find new ways to explore the deepest and darkest fears that creates a boundary and restricts us to some extent, to move on. They say it’s a feeling but I say, if it’s there to stay, why not use it to document what the others are…
Perception and Mindfulness: Wheels of The Same Chariot
About the Author: This blog is written by Siddharth Mathur, Designated Partner at Lex Protector LLP. Siddharth is a intellectual property rights practitioner and a prolific blogger who writes on issues of mental health, mindfulness, art and culture. Henry David Thoreau, an American philosopher and poet once said “It’s not what you look at that…
Netflix’s ‘MIMI’ and the underlying intricacies on the framework of surrogacy in India
This post is written by Ishita Goyal, a student of Symbiosis Law School, Noida. Her research interests include gender studies, sexuality and law. The 2021 Netflix’s movie, MIMI was a moving take on motherhood and surrogacy. It highlights the aspect of commercial surrogacy which has often been a point of debate. ‘MIMI’ is a story…
Human orgasm and its gender gap
Nicole Andrejek (@NicoleAndrejek) is a qualitative researcher on the Sex in Canada project at McMaster University and at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her research interests include analyses of Canadians’ gender gaps, sexual practices, sexual health, and sexual pleasure. Her forthcoming book, Dating in the Digital Age (Routledge), examines undergraduate women’s experiences…