2018 saw India Inc.’s most expensive wedding. With festivities spread over four months and three locations, the marriage of Isha Ambani, daughter of Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, with Anand Piramal, scion of the Piramal Enterprises, has been estimated to have clocked an expenditure close to a…

Anusha and her younger brother, Aniket, had an equal playing field. Besides the elementary awareness that Anusha was a girl and Aniket was a boy, the siblings grew up in an ecosystem that was gender blind. In their formative years at home, both had neatly defined roles in…

Last month, I travelled to the romantic capital of the world – Paris. Over a week’s time, I walked multiple alleys and cobblestoned streets of the city, catching glimpses of outdoor Parisian life from close quarters. Coming from the Asian continent, a memorable part of my experience was…

Rewind one month August 5, 2018. I was in Paris, amazed to see the expressive and fearless support for gay rights everywhere. Life size graffiti on walls celebrated lesbian sexuality unabashedly. The strong visual imagery was not defaced. Rainbow coloured flags outside people’s houses proudly danced in the…

My husband and I recently vacationed at Koh Samui, a cosmopolitan island on the Gulf of Thailand. We enjoyed a happy laid-back holiday, snorkelling off and on, sipping on delicious coffees, savouring crimson sunsets, and exploring local markets. One of the must dos was to enjoy the gloriously…

Valentine’s Day is round the corner. One more day to go. And I cannot contain my excitement. I am already visualizing roses, peaches, satin ribbons, strawberries, butterflies, ladybirds, and chimes. Basically, all things colourful and beautiful. The chirpy, mushy person in me is set to experience the happiness…

This happened a couple of years back. I was chatting with a male friend from my law school. We were sharing each other’s travel plans for the future and places that we would love to see. I mentioned that I really wanted to go on a beach vacation,…

I passively followed the American elections. I am neither a fan nor a hater of the newly elected US President, Donald Trump. So while Indian media and self-proclaimed wizards simply went berserk or rather got Trumped, I was particularly flustered by the coverage on Mr. President’s wife, Melania…

There are umpteen reports and stories covering pregnant women (read, public figures) flaunting their baby bump. As passive readers, we too participate in obsessing over such reports of how ‘amazingly’ beautiful a public figure looks despite the baby bump, how fantastic her ‘pregnancy fashion sense’ is, how an…

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are symbiotic terms that can mean a lot of things to different people. The scope may not be confined to the commonplace understanding in terms of gender specific D&I but can also refer to other parameters including language, colour, race and geographical origin. However,…