By Pooja Garg This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of Khabar Magazine While the South Asian community riding on the wave of model minority myth applauds its women achievers, it refuses to acknowledge the dark underbelly of abuse that takes place under the garb of close family ties. The current pandemic…
When Home is Not a Safe Haven for Children
By Pooja Garg This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of Khabar Magazine When Home is Not a Safe Haven for Children A staggering 25 percent of all children worldwide witness domestic violence even before they have turned five, according to WHO. Almost half of those get directly abused. As we estimate…
Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Up
By Pooja Garg This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of Khabar Magazine Khabar brings true life stories of domestic violence survivors who made it to safety. The ones who come out are a very small percentage of the ones who go through abuse. As they share their intimate experiences in their own…
Me and My Investment Behaviour
Jyoti Mehndiratta Kappal Money is of paramount importance for survival of an individual. We earn it to meet our immediate needs and then save for the rainy day. We plan our future expenses and then look for appropriate investment instruments that will help us meet our financial goals. Every investment instrument has a risk element…
Investor Biases impacting personal investment decisions
Jyoti Mehndiratta Kappal “Everyone was buying the stock, so I also thought of buying some.” “Last I read the company is doing lot of work in a village. I like to invest in such companies.” “I knew it. This news will impact the market, therefore I put in some money in the market last week.”…
Feminism and Sex Work
Written by Zeba Kazi Mainstream women’s issues tend to be more marketable, that can be worked in a capitalist environment. For example tackling period stigma while advertising for their own products. The issues that do get attention, we cannot ignore the machinations that are behind propelling an issue into the mainstream. Even for combating body-shaming,…
Decolonisation
Written by Zeba Kazi “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change…I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and…
The Woman Ink: Conversation with Geeta Chhabra
Interviewed by Tasnima Yasmin Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I was born and raised in Amritsar, Punjab-India. I did my primary education from Sacred Heart High School and my matriculation from Alexandra High School. I then went to Simla (now Shimla) for higher studies and joined St. Bede’s College – where…
A LISTICLE OF CHOICES
VIDYA RAJAGOPALAN My mother casually tells me “When you get married, have a child and start a family, you’ll understand how hard and excruciating it is to be a mother” I want to reply “Amma, I know, I know I can never be a mother, not as good as you for certain because motherhood is…
THE LATIN QUARTER WALK AT PANJIM
By Rituparna Roy ‘The Latin Quarter Walk’, by Soul Travelling, on a bright Sunday morning in March, turned out to be my most memorable experience of Goa, rivaling a quiet sunset at Benaulim Beach the previous evening. I must confess I simply fell in love with the Goan houses in the (less than) three days…
The Woman Inc. 