Men’s mental health: The crushing weight of provider pressure
Syed Hammad Ali For generations, the Indian family household has been governed by strict gender roles, where the men bear the responsibility of being the financial providers and protectors, while the women manage the household realms of child-rearing, cooking, and household maintenance. This division became so ingrained in our cultural identity that male self-worth […]
The invisible wound
by Neha Duseja Did anyone notice the bruise on my face? No, right? Because there wasn’t any. And that’s the thing about some wounds – they don’t show up on the skin, they sit inside you, quietly, and rot everything you once loved. I was 22 when I first heard the term panic disorder. I […]
When the wild speaks
This year’s monsoon brought devastation to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, with cloudbursts, landslides, and floods leaving no doubt that climate change is intensifying. It is making life dangerous for mountain communities and risky for tourists, while turning weather patterns increasingly unpredictable. We may soon need to redraw our weather charts and learn entirely new ways […]
The places we never go
by Sukriti Taneja There’s a folder on my laptop called ‘Someday’. Inside it, you’ll find half-baked itineraries to faraway cities, screenshots of Airbnb’s I’ll probably never book, bookmarked travel blogs, and a map dotted with pins that feel more like diary entries than destinations. It’s a strange kind of travel, this wishful wandering. You […]