(Picture courtesy: Supreet K. Singh) We invite submissions to The Woman Inc. & Beyond Black Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards 2019-2020. Theme: Gender and Inclusivity The Woman Inc. is proud to be associated with Beyond Black, a subsidiary of Red Dot Foundation and Safecity for Sakhi Annual Poetry Awards. The awards recognize and celebrate the diverse…
Category: TWI Winter Issue: Closure
On Closure, Moving Forward and Memoir: An interview with Joya Dass
Joya Dass is the CEO of LadyDrinks, a networking platform for South Asian women executives and entrepreneurs, and a well known TV personality. But much more than that, she is a woman who has risen stronger from a childhood spent in the shadow of domestic abuse. As she finishes her memoir, she took time out…
TWI Candid: A Long, Unpleasant Wait
Vani Vinay becomes the voice for a family member who went through trauma of child abuse. In the piece, Vani paraphrases her relative who wonders if she will ever find closure. I often wonder, what it’s like to live a life without having to regret the choices I did not make. Or, without having to…
TWI Candid: A Journey to Closure
Alka Writes takes a deep penetrating look at herself in this piece on her journey for Closure. To practice healing, over and over again. I thought I had been doing so well, that I had started believing this time I had reached beyond. Living in dysfunctional relationships often involves either denial or growing scabs and…
TWI Empowerment: Closure
A counseling perspective on Closure by Bhavana Nissima. Closure is a term that has found resonance with several people to describe the feeling of something left incomplete in their experience of Other. Like: I want to hear his side of the story I want him/her to know I suffered S/he has to apologize I want…
TWI Poetry: On Closure
Lullaby, a Haibun by Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla Some days are all about the womb and its emptiness which gnaws her entire being. Those days she sits crouched in the corner of her bathroom, trying to pick up the broken pieces and pacify her wild mind from becoming a beast. White orchids are used to grace…
TWI Fiction: The Missive
Jagruti was gone and yet not for Alok. A short story by Priya N Iyer The monsoons were almost over and it was getting warm again. This monsoon was one that Alok would never forget. Not that he had noticed the rains much. Only that they were a nuisance. The traffic was terrible during the commute from…
TWI Fiction: The Invitation
Closure. Or not? A short story by Supreet Bains Sharma “…… and now I don’t know what to do,” admitted Aisha to her husband, Sunil. She was explaining to Sunil her dilemma over sending out invite to Rakhi and her husband, who had just moved into the same building they lived in, to their annual…
TWI Art: On Closure
New Jersey based Deepa Pisupati made special commission art for The Woman Inc. on Closure. Here is what she has to say about her painting: This painting represents two people who are at the end of their relationship. This relationship could be any – friends, lovers, family. As the reach the end of their relationship,…
TWI Review: Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Reviewed by Ashini J. Desai There have been many adaptations and reinterpretations of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice. The timeless essence of her characters has easily lent themselves our modern world; even the Kardashian family with their drive for fortune as steered by their mother/manager has been compared to the Bennets. Austen’s influence and characters are everywhere, and we know…
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