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  • Are Bloggers Being Exploited?

    18 Dec 2017
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    Parenting blogs are a great source of comfort to new parents. Advertising is one way to monetize blogs. But are all forms of advertising the same? Are there ethical issues involved? Are bloggers being compensated adequately for sponsored posts? These are a few things I have been thinking about.

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  • Winning V/S Defeating

    02 Oct 2017
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    Sometimes winning may look like losing, but it takes strength to walk away, instead of impulsively striking back, to your own long-term detriment. Winning is not necessarily about defeating someone else.

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  • Privacy In The Electronic Age

    26 Aug 2017
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    Recently our Supreme Court, upheld the right to privacy as a fundamental right of every citizen. Why is this so important today? Here is my take.

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  • Censorship Is A Double-Edged Sword

    06 Aug 2017
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    Recently, social media has been flooded with angry posts about some TV show called Pehredaar Piya Ki. Seeing so many people agitated about it, piqued my curiosity, and I read a little about it. To me, it seems somewhat silly, but again, I have not actually watched it, so I am going to refrain from judging it any further.

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  • Taking The First Step

    15 Jun 2017
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    A letter to a friend who is a victim of abuse. Her situation is made worse by the fact that she is on a dependent H4 visa in the USA.

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  • Is the Internet Isolating Us?

    09 May 2017
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    A decade ago, I lived in a foreign country. That was when I started using social media. For a few years, it was about catching up with old friends, sharing pictures and gossiping about what had changed. It seemed like our forgotten friendships could be revived through the magic of the internet. If anyone had then told me, that the internet would eventually be isolating people, I would have called them raving loons.

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  • Just A Spoon Full Of Sugar ...

    09 Apr 2017
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    When we were kids, we were badgered by grown ups to read the news or watch the news in order to educate our selves and shed our ignorance of the world we lived in. In our times, news was quite boring and I wonder how many parents succeeded in getting their kids to actually read or listen to the news.

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  • Haunted By Our Colonial Past

    28 Mar 2017
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    A blogger friend of mine has blogged several times, about a couple of issues that bother her. One is, the strange emotionally charged attitude we have to the English language and the other is the discrimination, dark skinned people in India face. After some thought, I have come to believe, it is possible, that these two seemingly disconnected issues, could indeed be linked.

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  • The Modern Family: Drop The Labels

    28 Jan 2017
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    Sometimes, in our enthusiasm to to extinguish patriarchy and gender bias, we lose sight of he important stuff and follow formulas and mantras. Do we forget, that is what got us here in the first place?

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  • Why Marital Rape Must Be Criminalised

    09 Dec 2016
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    Criminalizing marital rape would send the clear message that: We as a nation do not condone marital rape.

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  • Spades and Hearts

    29 Nov 2016
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    Bigotry is on the rise in some parts of the world. Be it in the form of racism, sexism, religious intolerance or something else. People are becoming more comfortable with publicly expressing harsh hostile opinions directed against certain groups. So what can we do about it?

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  • The Origin Of Patriarchy

    18 Nov 2016
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    Most large societies evolved to be patriarchal. Many of us today are fighting against patriarchy and struggling to rectify the situation, but a question does come to mind. How or why did most large societies evolve to be patriarchal? What is the evolutionary biology explanation for this?

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  • What Will you Say This Halloween?

    31 Oct 2016
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    Having lived in the US for 8 years this is one of their traditions that I found most enjoyable. Halloween is a little unusual for a festival. Its not even a holiday. Its just a fun way to spend the evening.

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  • Why Is That Funny?

    28 Sep 2016
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    I was reading the very popular facebook post by Tannishtha Chatterjee about her humiliation on some comedy channel about the colour of her skin. “How is it funny to call someone dark? I don’t get it..” she says and she is right of course. But that got me thinking about jokes in general. There is a whole category of jokes that stereotype people and make fun of them as a group. Any of these sound familiar?

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  • No Explaination Needed

    23 Sep 2016
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    Often in the fight for equality and rights for women, the virtues of women are highlighted. Their endurance and emotional strength is emphasized. But what I don't understand is this. Do women need to be strong or successful or productive to deserve basic rights and equality?

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  • I Missed Driving

    21 Sep 2016
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    I moved to the US at the age of 20 for grad school. I lived alone and was financially independent. Neither earning a living, nor living alone, nor doing research made me feel as much a grown up as something else did.

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  • The Wonderful Ways Of The Working World

    06 May 2016
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    This was an entry for a contest with the writing cue #BeautifulInEverySize.

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  • Why The Secrecy, Shame, Taboo, And Lies?

    22 Mar 2016
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    When is the right ime to talk to your kids about periods? How does one broach such an uncomfortable subject? This post is about how I talked to my daughter about periods, and why I believe we should be open about it.

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  • What's The Big Hairy Deal?

    26 Jan 2016
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    Why do we treat our fellow women this way? Why is it so important that, if our legs are visible, they must also be bald? Why not let everyone make their choices and leave judgement and embarrassment out of it?

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  • What Patriotism Means To Me

    26 Jan 2016
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    Many of us go for flag hoisting on Republic and Independence day and feel patriotic. We feel patriotic when we hear the national anthem and we stand up. We get angry when someone criticizes our country and feel a surge of patriotism. This is all good, but hardly enough.

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  • The Many Faces Of The Girl Child

    09 Dec 2015
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    Traditionally there have been activities and interests, that are associated with a specific gender. For example sewing, cooking, embroidery, were considered feminine activities, while carpentry, sports, battle and engineering were considered masculine activities.

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