As a child the writer fantasized about hurling herself in front of Lord Ayyappa, but found elder women nonchalantly perpetuating gender discrimination allowing unkempt spiritual male warriors to adhere to their rituals of celibacy and more
Ratna Raman
Ratna Raman

As a child the writer fantasized about hurling herself in front of Lord Ayyappa, but found elder women nonchalantly perpetuating gender discrimination allowing unkempt spiritual male warriors to adhere to their rituals of celibacy and more

As a child, the writer fantasized about hurling herself in front of Lord Ayyappa, but found elder women nonchalantly perpetuating gender discrimination allowing unkempt spiritual male warriors to adhere to their rituals of celibacy and more

India this year slipped down from 122 to 133 on the Global Happiness Index. What is the meaning of National and Global Happiness Indices when a humongous majority has so far had little access to any freedom or quality of life

You can love this strong-smelling bulb and salivate, or you can just find it overpowering. Either way, garlic is at the heart of the culinary conversation in India
The “kuzhi-appakaaral” qualifies without exception as the most remarkable kitchen utensil ever made in the history of implements and put to the most salubrious of uses

Why the crowdsourced list of alleged sexual offenders circulated on the internet as part of the #Metoo movement should be viewed as a harmless space from which women hope to be heard
While some Feminists might stonewall the moment where young women are calling out their harassers, the compilation of the 'sexual predators' list is an important process in breaking the same fear as calling out Lord Voldemorts name did in Hogwarts
Ratna Raman
Maybe such stories are true of lives women lead in small-towns but is LUMB supposed to be a documentary on the graphic horrors of being a woman in small-town India?
Ratna Raman Delhi

The peaceful protests that have engulfed parts of Tamil Nadu are not only about Jalikattu, but problems that have plagued the Tamil psyche knowingly or unknowingly for a long time
Ratna Raman Delhi