Parenting - A word very much loved by women. Almost all women I come across consider themselves experts in parenting. If you are in India, and if you happen to have a child, you will receive advices and guidance on this subject from almost every woman you come across. I was walking down the street the other day with my 10 month od daughter sleeping on my shoulders. A woman called out to me from inside her boutique shop. Curious, I stopped only to get a long advice on how I should cover my ba...

Turbulent Years of Transition from a Girl to a Woman “Aah! Those years...I remember how strangely confounding and pleasurable at the same time they were”. This is an emotion that most women around the world would share and agree upon and would have felt during those tumultuous years between adolescence and the threshold of adulthood. This phase is confounding and pleasurable at the same time. You know you are growing up. You know your body is growing and developing in a way lik...

Friends have you noticed that though there is so much of encouragement towards breastfeeding, you rarely get to see women practicing it nowadays.... everyone is busy bottle feeding their kids with formula. Though there is enough evidence of the benefits of breastfeeding for the child as well as the mother and enough documentation of the ill-effects of bottle feeding & formula yet women knowingly do the wrong thing for their babies????? I for one have experienced both the situations. Fo...

Hi , I am 42, mother of 2 daughters of 21 & 19. Recently I had missed periods & Dr. have confirmed that I am pregnant for 2 months. I am totally shocked as this was never planned. I want to know what best way to abort considering my age . Also I dont my daughters to know about this as its too embarrsing. Also this is making me feeling guitly as I am going to kill some one. However husband is pretty cool which has made me depressed even more. ...

Hello,Every parent fell that their baby should have the best qualities in him. They struggle a lot and plane many things to make their child perfect. But now a day when we see that there are many things surrounding them which may destruct their mind and if the child is not aware about the good qualities and value of life and is not able to analyze the difference between the good and bad, it may lead to many bad consequences in his life. At that time the parents think that if we had given time fo...

I myself was an abused wife. My husband at the time would hit me and tell me if I had not made him mad it would not have happened. He broke my ribs,bruised me, locked me in closets, put me down in front of others, called me names and told me no one else would want me because I was worth nothing. He refused to let me cook, clean or do anything. Be cause he said I was not smart enough. This also happened in front of my sons. The beatings got worse so I had to leave. Now my life is better. I am goi...

This is all very nice but a looming issue for the future of the community is the practice of its Prince and Princess' marrying outside the 'clan' and justifying it by saying Ismaili women/men are their brothers/sisters. Its a strange thing to see progressively Anglo people being worshipped by their South Asian counterparts. The bloodline is being progressively weakened and the claim of birthright to the Prophet risks getting tepid. The Ismaili community as such is extremely closed...

When Aditi got admission in a prestigious University in the US of A, we were delighted for her. The fact that she had also been awarded a partial scholarship made us proud parents indeed. The next few months were a flurry of activity: shopping, fee transfers, visas, documentation, packing and finally D day! At 23 Aditi was pretty confident of flying out alone and did not want us accompanying her.Rakshit and I stood at the airport, waving her goodbye. We were glad for her, even though we held bac...