Tag: #equalrights

Interview, LGBTQ

Growing Up As A Girl Trapped Inside A Boy’s Body Was Not Easy: Gazal Dhaliwal

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Growing Up As A Girl Trapped Inside A Boy’s Body Was Not Easy: Gazal Dhaliwal

Gazal Dhaliwal’s journey from being a small town girl in Patiala to a celebrity screenplay writer is nothing short of inspiring. The woman behind the screenplay of the recently released Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga was born a boy. Till the age of 25, she had to live the life of a lie. Each day, [...]

featured, Women's Issues

2018 Year Of Women…. Really?!

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2018 Year Of Women…. Really?!

This is a piece I wrote for SheThePeople as a year-end article in 2018. I was going through the article and realised that unfortunately, not much has changed for women's safety this year either. How long will this struggle for our basic rights continue? ********************************************************************************* As we sign off for the year and spend the [...]

Book Review, Children's Book

Like A Girl – Book Review

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Like A Girl – Book Review

Once in very many years you get a book which can be passed as an heirloom down the generations … (I have a list…a few books I would want my daughters, daughter’s daughters, great granddaughters to read! I am crazy like that!) And then, comes along a book by an Indian author you know you [...]