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Articles by Akriti Bhardwaj
My best friend!!
By: Akriti Bhardwaj, Class XII, Apeejay School, Panchsheel Park I believe being best friends about clicking 257 pictures, recreating Insta trends, getting matching bracelets, wishing birthdays at exactly 00:00, etc. (cause my bestie can barely commit to mall plans), rather than genuinely appreciating that person who stuck with you in the times when the world felt so overwhelming. They didn’t call it dramatic when you cried over things others don’t understand and call it ‘small’.
Relevance of The Father’s Day
By: Akriti Bhardwaj, Apeejay School, Panchsheel Park Father’s Day is weird. Like, do we even know what we’re supposed to feel? For some, it’s all ‘Thanks, Dad!!’ with mugs, posts, and maybe a badly wrapped tie. For others? It’s just a normal Sunday filled with project files to complete. Some of us have a dad who drives us everywhere, checks our water bottle before exams, and threatens to beat anyone who breaks our heart (thanks, king).
Puberty Can Be A Disturbing Period For Girls: How Society Can Destigmatise Menstruation
Us women face various natural processes throughout our life, such as menstruation, puberty, childbirth and many more. But puberty and menstrual cycles are the most crucial periods of our lives due to various myths and lack of awareness that exist in our Indian society. Sometimes, we also end up neglecting psychosomatic effects. It is not easy to adopt and accept all the changes that our bodies go through during our adolescence. Here, I would like to share my own experience when I entered this phase.
“The Four Vedas Never State Anywhere That A Woman’s Body Is Impure”
“South Asia’s women are shackled by a myriad of social customs and beliefs that embrace and straddle the patriarchy.” Kamla Bhasin. Observing right from the period of Aristotle, who regarded a woman’s rightful place as her house, because of her ‘special abilities’ as a wife, mother and householder, while a man acquired that a woman’s function was to “keep and store”, a path for differences and discrimination has built up. Such social constructions have formed a society of oppression.
“Do I Get A Holiday From Housework When I’m On My Period?”
“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial- and any question about sex is that- one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one’s audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.” – A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf The new policy of period leaves caused quite a stir on social media in the past few weeks.
A Case For Period Leave: Hear Me Out, It’s Not The Death Of Feminism
Culture Machine, a Mumbai based media firm, became the first to give their female employees an optional first day of the period (FOP) leave. A lot of other companies and corporate firms followed this policy which erupted a debate whether such a policy is regressive and against the gender equality ideals.
Get ‘Em Young: Intervention In Schools Might Help Us Bust Menstrual Myths
Aristotle had rightly said, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Menstruation can be defined as the discharge of blood and tissues through the vagina. Menstruation is a biological cycle that occurs on a regular interval inside a women’s body. Menstruation typically starts during teenage years, typically between 12-15 years, when the body starts secreting hormones for the development of the body for future fertilisation.
Periods and Patrakaars: How Media Can Report Menstruation Better
By Pratyusha V V Trigger warning: Please note that this article has descriptions of shame and discriminatory practices surrounding menstruation. Please exercise discretion in engaging with the content, if triggering. Did you wake up this morning with push notifications from your news app? ‘Newspaper and coffee’ kind of person? Or are twitter trends your thing? Evening news on the TV? Or does the radio ramble on with news while you drive to work? The news is everywhere. But not everything is in the news.
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