Voices

Dear Men, Carry Your Own Burden of Redemption

woman looking up at the sky wondering about why women must bear the burden of. men's redemption.

We’ve held space, we’ve held silence, and we’ve held men while they broke us - all in the name of love, patience, or hope. But this essay is a reckoning. It’s about asking men to finally carry their own burden of redemption - to stop waiting for women to do the heavy lifting of their healing. Because unless they choose to carry their own burden of redemption in both public and private life, all their allyship is just performance. And until they learn to carry their own burden of redemption, we will keep living in a world half-built, with broken trust and unfinished change.

WHAT’S PATRIARCHY, YA?

In a troubling but sadly familiar trend, senior women leaders in India are using their platforms not to empower, but to tear other women down. Some of the usual narrative surrounds around what the minister is saying in the above…

The Many Lives of Syeda X

What will follow in the lines below is not a book review of sorts. It will rather be an amateur documentation of how a book can touch lives and leave its imprint, writes SUBHASREE GHATAK I had been hearing about this…