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Aditi Roy Bhowmick
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Nov 23, 2022

Four Days in Meghalaya

Trust me, the name of this North-Eastern state is no hyperbole — In the third week of October this year, my parents needed a break. They were emerging from a rough month and a half. So my partner flew in and we kidnapped them for a quick trip to Meghalaya. I thought they were being cliché when they named the state “abode…

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Four Days in Meghalaya
Four Days in Meghalaya

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Nov 23, 2022

Death Pollution

Casteism & Death Pollution in India — My two remaining grandparents passed away this past September. Within a fortnight of each other. They had been married for 60 years, not necessarily because they reached developed country grandparent age but because child marriage was rampant in my grandmother’s generation. This was by no means my first brush with…

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Death Pollution
Death Pollution

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Sep 14, 2022

The Second Shift

Testing what we know from watching our mothers in the data — Today, I came across this poignant twitter thread where a daughter recounts her working mother’s “second shift” and that to make things worse, her mother’s commute time was longer as well. My mother works, wakes up at ungodly hours and pays a steep price to maintain her trade outside the…

Gender Equality

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The Second Shift
The Second Shift
Gender Equality

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Sep 12, 2022

Mamata (Didi) Banerjee

The sole female chief minister (head of state government) in India today — Banerjee grew up in a lower-middle-class part of south Calcutta (now Kolkata), and her father died when she was young. Still, she was able to go to college, eventually earning several degrees, including a bachelor’s in law and a master’s in arts from the University of Calcutta. She became involved…

Showmethewomen

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Mamata (Didi) Banerjee
Mamata (Didi) Banerjee
Showmethewomen

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Sep 11, 2022

Two seemingly opposite studies on the Mother-In-Law effect

The “Kyunki” Studies Duo (IYKYK) — Two remarkable studies on the effect of a coresident mother-in-law on outcomes of the daughter-in-law in the Indian context dropped last year. Both made waves. However, their findings are seemingly at odds with each other. On one hand, Anukriti et al. find that a coresident mom-in-law (or “mummy-ji”) acts as…

Women

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Two seemingly opposite studies on the Mother-In-Law effect
Two seemingly opposite studies on the Mother-In-Law effect
Women

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Aug 21, 2022

India: A public-private divide

Individualistic on paper, Collectivist in practice I should be doing a 100 different things on my to-do list right now. Instead, I will write this piece before this framework disappears from my head. There’s a good chance that you the reader have a 100 different things to do as well…

Individualism

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India: A public-private divide
India: A public-private divide
Individualism

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Jun 13, 2022

Maiden India: Work

Women and work in India, part lived experience and part data — When women of my mother’s generation worked, they mostly had jobs, not careers. The women of my grandmother’s generation worked “out of compulsion”. In the 60s, my father’s mother managed to escape the violence in Bangladesh with her children in tow. One afternoon, she had set off with other women…

Women

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Maiden India: Work
Maiden India: Work
Women

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Dec 6, 2021

Mixing Feminism with Shaadi

Shaadi = Marriage in Hindi — My partner and I got married on November 17th in the most pared down Indian wedding situation possible. We drove 2 hours to a court in UP to get our registration done since courts in Delhi were not functional because of peak pollution and restricted activities. I could not have…

Gender

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Mixing Feminism with Shaadi
Mixing Feminism with Shaadi
Gender

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Nov 15, 2021

A (blissful) week in South Karnataka

I would pay my partner, Anurag, to have him plan trips for me. He is very good at it. Instead, I get to go on beautifully laid out trips for free. I have spent the past week jouncing across South Karnataka following his itinerary assembled over a month. It was…

Travel

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A (blissful) week in South Karnataka
A (blissful) week in South Karnataka
Travel

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Jun 20, 2021

The (literal) road to Gender Equality

Abstruse real-life meets gender economics musings: learning how to drive in Delhi edition — So I passed my driving test in Delhi this weekend. My father has been after my life for five years now to fix my “mobility problem”. Now that I am finally living in one place in India for more than a year I didn’t have an excuse. He also shipped…

Women

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The (literal) road to Gender Equality
The (literal) road to Gender Equality
Women

4 min read

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