Mother's Day 2022

Mother’s Day 2022: Supermoms are outdated

Today is Mother’s Day and as we scramble to buy last minute gifts for all the mother figures in our lives, let us pause and ask ourselves frankly — at a time when postpartum depression is at its peak, workplaces are especially unforgiving to women who have just given birth, and the immediate family scene is replete with taunts about being a “good mother”, is an engraved pendant or a spa session enough to make mothers happy?

Motherhood—the story of a transformed reader

Motherhood changes everything you knew about yourself and the world you had carefully curated for the past however many years you have been alive.

And I was born

Twenty-eight years ago, on an overcast day, an astrologer, sitting at the porch of our ramshackle house, had predicted that my mother would never give birth to a male child.

How I celebrated Mother’s Day through the years

Reminiscing childhood experiences of celebrating Mother's Day.

May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022

Mother’s Day 2022: Supermoms are outdated

Today is Mother’s Day and as we scramble to buy last minute gifts for all the mother figures in our lives, let us pause and ask ourselves frankly — at a time when postpartum depression is at its peak, workplaces are especially unforgiving to women who have just given birth, and the immediate family scene is replete with taunts about being a “good mother”, is an engraved pendant or a spa session enough to make mothers happy?

May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022

Motherhood—the story of a transformed reader

Motherhood changes everything you knew about yourself and the world you had carefully curated for the past however many years you have been alive.

May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022

And I was born

Twenty-eight years ago, on an overcast day, an astrologer, sitting at the porch of our ramshackle house, had predicted that my mother would never give birth to a male child.

May 7, 2022
May 7, 2022

How I celebrated Mother’s Day through the years

Reminiscing childhood experiences of celebrating Mother's Day.

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