India needs to understand that living with a disability makes me neither ‘helpless’ nor ‘heroic’

In most people’s eyes, my disability isn’t something I live with, it is something I suffer from.

Preeti Singh

· Apr 27, 2018 · 11:30 am

Backpacking through India with foreigners, I learned some hard truths about myself and my country

While we consider guests to be gods, Indians are often judgemental towards foreign tourists.

Omkar Khandekar

· Apr 09, 2018 · 11:30 am

As the ‘Himalayan Journal’ turns 90, its editor explains the highs and lows of the job

‘The Himalaya have never been far from my consciousness.’

Nandini Purandare

· Feb 18, 2018 · 03:30 pm

‘My heart stopped’: An Indian shark anthropologist writes about his encounter with a Great White

‘She was not a monster, she was energy.’

Raj Sekhar Aich

· Feb 09, 2018 · 11:30 am

What an Indian woman’s experiment with being phoneless taught her about life and relationships

The inconveniences were more mundane and routine than I had expected them to be.

Sayalee Karkare

· Jan 04, 2018 · 11:30 am

In an unempathetic India, I suffer the double trauma of living with PTSD as a young queer woman

Navigating mental health care as a queer person is specially difficult.

Anonymous

· Dec 19, 2017 · 03:30 pm

To avoid a C-section at the end of my pregnancy, I went from hospital to hospital

A woman’s tale of having to meet at least four doctors in a quest for a natural birth.

Krutika Patel

· Nov 09, 2017 · 02:30 pm

For a nation obsessed with white skin, India still sees vitiligo as impure and unattractive

An account of what it means to live with the skin disease in India.

Durga M Sengupta

· Nov 01, 2017 · 03:30 pm

In my depression, the tweezers have become my worst enemy

An Indian woman traces her journey with trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder.

Manjiri Indurkar

· Oct 06, 2017 · 03:30 pm

In my depression, the tweezers have become my worst enemy

An Indian woman traces her journey with trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder.

Manjiri Indurkar

· Oct 06, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Social apartheid: I was barred from entering a Kolkata mall because I was wearing a dhoti

Filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak writes about his experience at Quest Mall on Saturday.

Ashish Avikunthak

· Jul 17, 2017 · 05:51 pm

There was nothing ‘normal’ about my normal delivery

The writer recounts her traumatic experience of labour and how her wishes were ignored by doctors.

Meenakshi Iyer

· May 16, 2017 · 02:30 pm