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The Woman Inc Sakhi Award is an annual award, highlighting the best voices writing for women. We were astounded by the huge number of submissions we received, for this first year of starting, and to shortlist down to this final ten has been difficult. The poems were read blind and judged by The Woman Inc…

That funny thing called ‘marriage’

The timing could not have been perfect. Sometimes I wonder if God has these little people working for him who only work on the algorithm of timing and how certain news should be broken in one’s life- good, bad or ugly. I have few people who I like because of the manner in which they…

On Victims and Victimhood

There is a disturbing trend amongst women these days to play the victim card. I am guilty as charged for playing that card too, unknowingly sometimes and other times deliberately. This is a pointed observation to Kangana Ranaut’s recent interview (and I like her acting skills superbly). I still feel that it was an unnecessary…

These Comics & Memes Explain What Feminism Really Is

Easy to understand piece on why we all should be feminists!

The Violence Within

A hard hitting article on the violence against women and how so much still needs to change.

LOVE: An Urban Legend?

Gwyneth Paltrow called getting divorced as ‘conscious uncoupling’ but that was 2014, it is still ‘irreconcilable differences’ as far as Jolie-Pitt affair goes. So at the fag end of an emotionally draining year, of witnessing heartbreaks and having to deal with them, of sealing the fate of many marriages like an undertaker, I thought let…

In South Asia, Violence Against Women is On the Rise

Violence against women in South Asia has become so common and normalized that, instead of decreasing, it is on the rise. A few days ago, I encountered a situation where one of my friends commented on how women’s working abilities are less than those of men. I responded to him about how capability is not defined…

Listen And Hear

listen and hear. here is your dark, your womb, your abyss. here is the place shaken from grace deeper than space, darker than, the blackest of night. listen and hear. here are your very own demons, step in despite, your tremendous trembling. what awaits you is death,…

Persephone

Congratulations, Rita, your poem is one of our trio of winning poems for this month’s prompt… Speaking out against violence against women. May your pen have even more power in 2017. Editors, The Woman Inc… Vinita, Pooja and Jhilmil I Faces break on cobbled sidewalks in the cold light of day– their festering loneliness…