Exploring Stories, Culture & Society.
Exploring Stories, Culture & Society.
It was my last official day at work and I was eagerly looking forward to my pregnancy and the subsequent Motherhood stage. It was on my way back home in the company shuttle, when I received the most powerful Motherhood…
Disney is on a roll and how! After acing in the animated movie series of Classic Fairy tales – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Tangled aka Rapunzel´s tale and more, they…
Last Sunday, I took my daughter to my parent´s house as usual. She was all excited and raring to go because she wanted to play at the neighbourhood park close by. Once we reached there, my mother served us some…
(This article was first here on Mycity4kids: ) “How did our parents raise eight children so effortlessly and also manage to instil the right values in each one of us? How is that even humanly possible when here I am, struggling…
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw 2017 is here and how! Other than Jallikattu, Zaira Wasim, the child artiste from the movie ´Dangal´ was the other trending news over the last two…
Here are top movies with strong female characters that you can watch with your kids. Movies are a fantastic medium to educate our children. They can learn so much from movies—the good, the bad, and the ugly. So, they must…
There’s a kind of hush all over the world – Freelancing! And it has feminism writ large all over it. As known by now, the traditional work structure is not designed to suit most women. Especially so, after marriage and…
In a game-changing landmark move, the Government of India is seriously trying to improve gender diversity across Corporate Boards. The revised Companies Act of 2013 mandates the appointment of at least one woman director to the Corporate Board. Without doubt,…
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” So rightly said Margaret Thatcher. Here is raising a toast to 10 powerful Indian female politicians – their struggles and ultimate triumphs in…
‘I wish a wish, A wish be mine That every man shalt worship thy own like divine.’ Traditionally, an ideal woman has always been associated with quiet wisdom, immense maturity, unconditional love, and sacrifice. A woman who will inspire and…
With our modern lifestyle, stress is unavoidable. But can changing how you feel about stress and viewing it as less harmful, make you healthier? Stress has got always a bad reputation and unfairly so! It is not stress per se…
Watch two legends from the literary world and the tennis world make a powerful, soul-stirring and political statement via one of the most beautiful and effective medium there ever was – Poetry. Two women who may come from diverse professional…
Just watched XXX : Return of Xander Cage with Hubby dearest yesterday! First day, first show! The movie is a no brainer. Guns, bombs, flyings cars and planes, babes and dudes! Plot? Who cares! Vin Diesel makes anything worth watching!…
I still remember the Winter of 92´. I was standing underneath the moonlit sky, participating in the Christmas Midnight Mass. I felt as if the ground under me would just collapse and so would I, along with it. Suddenly, my…
Three things you cannot recover in life the WORD after it´s said, the MOMENT after it´s missed and the TIME after it´s gone. Today is the last day of 2016. Its time to bid adieu gracefully to the year…
The year of 2016 was a year of comebacks for me. Comeback to India after a six year stay in the USA, comeback to family and old friends and to Bollywood movies in particular. Yes! There´s somehow no escaping the…