How to raise a boy: Being an Indian parent means even if you’re laid back, the world around you isn’t
I became a mother 26 years ago. The moment my doctor showed me the barest glimpse of my son before taking him away to another hospital’s NICU because he wasn’t breathing the way he should, was the moment I realised that my entire sanity hinged upon this one small being staying alive. A harrowing 25 […]
What if we gave boys the agency to opt out of traditional and often damaging ways of being a man?
As an 11-year-old who fought for women-eating-before-men at the wedding ceremony lunch of one of my aunts, I was raising men even before I was aware of my womb. So eventually, when I begat a boy at 41, the bar was already set very high. I imagined my husband and I would raise him together, […]