TMYS Facebook LIVE with global thought-leaders under various topics elaborating the theme of Gender Stereotyping. The book under the project will be available HERE in the second half of 2024. All panel discussions were hosted by Joyashree Dey. Childcare and motherhood are the primary purpose of a woman’s life. Speakers: Anuja Chandramouli, Rianka Sarkar, Richa S. Mukherjee Women should know how to cook. Speakers: Prof. Krishnendu Ray, Dr. Tarana Husain Khan, Prof. Renu Addlakha Gender Ster…
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Archive: Gender Stereotyping: Story Project 13
Feb 21, 2024
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Airport
Dec 18, 2020
It had been over a year since they met. Aayush moved to London in search of a better living, hoping to make it with Farah one day. Their longing saw no end. After sharing life for almost a decade together, both had to make the hard choice. September 23, 2018, was a normal hustling day in Delhi. The luggage was a bit more than usual but sufficient for anyone to guess that one of them was about to travel internationally. A cab took them to their pre-booked hotel where they rested for some time and…
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Adopted
May 26, 2020
Mahek was just two days old when sister Nirmala of Mother Teresa’s Ashram found her on a pavement at the back street of the orphanage. Being the youngest child in the ashram, Mahek was loved and adored by all her siblings who were not related by blood but by fate. Shweta was a 16-year-old in the orphanage, who nurtured Mahek like a mother all the while when she was still at a tender age. Days passed happily in the care of the dear ones. Five years ago, Ahmed and Shabnam Qureshi lost their only d…
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My Priceless Possession
Jan 11, 2017
The impression of the stories narrated by my mother before kissing me “goodnight” still lingers in my mind. The fairy-tales, often accompanied by mythological stories from the Quran, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bible, crafted heroic pictures of the legendary characters in my imagination before I fell asleep. Once while traveling with my mom in an auto-rickshaw through a busy road in the city, I happened to see many colorful, small and large statues, which I thought to be of some elephant toy. …