Author: Nirupama Subramanian

“I sent my eight-month-old baby to daycare and went back to work,’ confessed a young mother during a workshop. Her eyes became moist and she flinched as though she expected the other women to pelt her with stones, each heavy with the words ‘ Bad Mother’.   “Why don’t fathers feel any guilt leaving their children and going for work?” pondered another mother who had quit her...

Read the original article on shethepeopletv here   Ok, I confess. I recently read Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl. I decided to check out the book after hearing that the author had delved deep into the psyche of the Indian girl and claimed to represent the reality of the Indian women. In the book, the Indian girl’s first boyfriend rejects her because she earns an obscene amount as...

Some thoughts on sexual harassment along with other panelists at the Women Writers Festival in Delhi-February 2017   Read the article here...

I have always had mixed feelings about this whole ‘Women Leadership’ idea. A leader is a leader, I thought. Why should gender enter the picture? Surely, we look for general leadership qualities in a person and anyone who has those should be the right person for the job, whether it is in a corporate or a country. I am a leadership development consultant who works...

Mira Rajput, who few people, including me, had heard of is suddenly in the news for her comments about her life choices and especially the statement referring to her role as a mother, “I wouldn’t want to spend one hour a day with her and rush off to work. She is not a puppy, I want to be there for her as a mother.”   To me,...

I am relaxing on my couch watching ‘The Intern’ on DVD. Robert De Niro, plays the eternally affable Ben Whitaker who joins About the Fit, an internet start-up as The Intern. He is 70, his boss Jules Ostin, played by a stylish but stressed Anne Hathaway is a 30 something woman.   Ben is escorting his employer’s daughter to a birthday party and comes across the stay...

Indrani Mukherjee is doomed. Even before any tangible evidence comes to light, even before a court hearing before she makes any kind of statement, she has already been judged. The case has been a bonanza for the TRP hungry news channels. The story has captured the attention and imagination of a nation. How can a woman kill her own daughter, we wonder. How depraved, how...

A talk with Anuranjita Kumar, author and Head of Human Resources in Citibank   Can I have it all? This is a question that every woman contemplating a career invariably asks herself. Is it really possible to rise to the top of my field, bring up intelligent, well-behaved children, maintain a loving relationship with my spouse and stay sane and stress-free?   While there is no single formula for...

Ban or no ban- I don’t think I am going to watch India’s Daughter. I don’t really need to see a film to know that rape is brutal, a rapist is a perverted narrow-minded misogynist, India is a patriarchy, lawmakers, lawyers and many people in our society have notions about women’s conduct that should have died centuries ago. From what I have read about the...

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