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It was an American award-winning photographer who introduced me to Varanasi (he spoke about a certain energy in Varanasi that made his photographs alive). Since then, writings of Yogananda Paramahansa, poetry of Kabir, Ustad Bismillah Khan’s music or friends and family’s personal narratives strengthened my desire to visit this city. The first visit only left

When a young girl tried to speak against an uncle, teacher, cousin, she was told, “Shh I don’t think that is true and anyway don’t tell anyone, they won’t believe you.” When a teenager tried speaking up, “You think you have become smart. Just shut up and first learn not to wear such clothes, stop

Violence against women in India is getting more gruesome by the day. The recent cases are different because they were all done by intimate partners, lovers, boyfriends, or husbands. Intimate partner violence or domestic violence is not new in India, but we have clearly not learnt to speak about it, leave alone take strong actions

Why is that men use women as weapons of war, why it that men parade women naked to take revenge, why is that women are raped, abused, controled or killed by men?  Even after days of Manipur video going viral I do not know how I feel. I want to be angry and scream but