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Mar 22, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Preethi Warrier |Farida Rizwan
Feminist Can Your Daughter-In-Law Cook? Instead of fixating on just cooking skills, people should recognize and appreciate the many other qualities a daughter-in-law brings to the table. “Can your daughter-in-law cook?” That was the question on everyone’s lips when my son’s marriage was arranged. It seemed like cooking was the only thing that mattered, as if a woman’s worth was measured solely by her skills in the kitchen. But I wondered, what if she couldn’t cook?
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Preethi Warrier |Farida Rizwan
Seema is a hard working school teacher with a tough schedule. She earns for her bread and butter. Back home, she has an equally punishing cooking schedule. She runs a customised pre order based snacks business. This is her way of earning and paying for her fun trips and breaks. Are women missing from the Indian workforce? Not really! Atleast, it does not appear so in urban India. There may be few in the corporate board rooms.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier |Upasana Dandona
A young couple I know closely, Rahul and Sonia (names changed), are in a live-in relationship. The couple is compatible and committed. Yet, the partners are unable to get married because of parental opposition. Both of them are in their late twenties and financially independent. Instead, of waiting indefinitely for parental consent, they have decided to live together. What’s wrong with that? How are other people impacted by their decision? Why must ‘society’ interfere in Rahul and Sonia’s life?
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Farida Rizwan |Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
“Can your daughter-in-law cook?” That was the question on everyone’s lips when my son’s marriage was arranged. It seemed like cooking was the only thing that mattered, as if a woman’s worth was measured solely by her skills in the kitchen. But I wondered, what if she couldn’t cook? Would our lives suddenly become flavorless? Did we not eat and enjoy the food ever before? Why should things change all of a sudden? Cooking is just one aspect of a person’s abilities and character.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Hema Gopinathan |Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
*SPOILER ALERT* Don’t read further if you are planning to see the film. This is not a film review though. Manjummel boys is a good film if not a great one, and definitely worth a watch. My essay is related to the film only tangentially. Before the pandemic, I was on a solo trip and did something so uncharacteristic that my mind boggles to this day. I decided to try my hand at paragliding.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Mahila Money |Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
In the quaint village of Gobarhela nestled within the Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, Rajkumari Chidar led a life bound by limitations. Earning a meager income of 2000 rupees per month, she resigned herself to a future defined by labor and struggle. Every day brought its share of troubles, and Rajkumari couldn’t figure out how to improve her life and future amidst the constant struggle of finding work.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
Popular actor Surya Sivakumar participated in a program held by Anna University in Chennai a few days ago. He interacted with the student and during his speech, he mentioned that “A woman is capable of completing a work that could be done by five men. They have the power within them. They have achieved in different sectors, including Agni missile and ISRO. I see the surrounding women are always powerful. Women need to work 50% more than men to gain recognition.”The last line stands so true.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
Consider this: 95 per cent of what we learn is through our eyes and ears. Can you imagine the challenges faced by those who are deafblind, that is, they have both sight and hearing loss? Shrutilata Singh has been having progressive deafblindness since childhood. Yet the spunky 30-year-old has not let this deter her from finding meaning in life. Shruti is the first deafblind person in the country to graduate and work as a physiotherapist.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Upasana Dandona |Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
As someone who needs an excuse to complain about how terrible the cinematic adaptations of Anuja Chauhan’s brilliant novels have been so far, I expected very little from Murder Mubarak (2024) which is based on Club You To Death (2021). Set in Delhi Turf Club in Lutyens Delhi — which bears resemblance to Delhi Gymkhana Club — the novel is a whodunnit in which a desi Hercule Poirot, ACP Bhavani Singh solves the murder mystery after the club’s zumba trainer is killed.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
womensweb.in | Aruna Raghuram |Preethi Warrier
At times, relationships do not work in the way the couple wants them to. No concrete reasons are needed to justify. It could be anything. So reaching the extreme ends, they take the decision to part ways and it is best when done legally. Hence, they stepped into the court to break the bond that no longer felt needed. What happens during the process? Logically, they need to carry on with their lives and not intervene in one another’s. Sometimes, it doesn’t happen so.
