Letting my hair down
I’m often called a “boy,” and I think it’s meant to be an insult, but I do not associate my worth with the length of my hair any longer.
I’m often called a “boy,” and I think it’s meant to be an insult, but I do not associate my worth with the length of my hair any longer.
Having grown as much as I have today, I can understand how hard he works to bring smiles to our faces. He doesn’t express much, but I know how much he loves me.
The bride’s father walking his daughter down the aisle, isn’t it essentially the woman being handed around from a man to another?
Are we moving ahead-
From a world where success survived.
To a world where survival is success in itself.
I think. I firmly believe. Only now has my mother found the right person for her. In her face, I see new waves of joy every day.
Most of the time, most of us react to incidents more than what they deserve. That’s where we lose. There is a story which I read long back and I felt it suits well for what I have started to write.
This is the way society has manipulated women and normalized certain things. It is just a momentary pleasure for these men, but it is a lifelong scar for the women. It creates self-doubt and questions one’s worth.
When Daughters give birth to Fathers, it is not a birth story, it is a rebirth story.
She was rightly named Rani. She was born in a small corner of a big slum in Chennai. True leaders are born in mangers, right?
Most of the educated youth are unemployable. They have poor entrepreneurial skills. They lag in conceptualising. We need radical reform.
Reading or telling yourself these affirmations can help you achieve an optimistic mindset. After all, it is all that we need.
Avoid the feeling that you must be sympathized with by family members, during period days. This will relieve you from the expectation and sympathy.
Madras Central Railway Station. The movie reel box had arrived from Bombay by train. Thousands of people crowded the busy Wall Tax road through which the reel box was taken to Kinema Central- where the movie was to be screened. People all along the roads showered flowers, broke open coconuts on the roads, showed ‘arti’ and burnt incense sticks, welcoming the reel. “Watch for yourselves, the first talkie featuring your favorite star TP Rajalakshmi dance and sing in Tamil and Telugu” screamed the posters all along and “The famous drama artiste TP Rajalakshmi for the first time in a talking cinema”, announced loudspeakers in cars and automobiles. The first talkie of Tamil Cinema, Kalidas, rested squarely on the tender shoulders of a girl, who was barely 20, married at 7 and divorced at 11!
Hannah Ratnam Krishnama @ Kamala Sathianathan Nivedita Louis 1898… Senate House, Madras University. The Graduation Ceremony is underway. The names are called out and students…