When 30-year-old Henrietta Lacks, mother of five, walked through the doors of John Hopkins Hospital in 1951 to get a knot in the stomach fixed, she couldn’t have known that she was about to change the face of medicine and change the lives of millions of people across the globe. After undergoing a biopsy on…
“To Sew Up”
You are offered a chocolate, a movie or maybe a day out; they take you to a room, take off your pants, pin you down and cut that part of your body that was eventually supposed to make you experience some of the greatest pleasures of being a woman. In the name of culture, faith,…
#Me Too!
What began in 2006 by Tarana Burke, a social activist to promote empowerment through empathy has been throwing stats on our face for more than two weeks now. Burke coined the phrase, which simply translates to – you’re heard, you’re understood, after being unable to respond to a thirteen year old girl who confided in…
A Hidden Strength
Mothers Day! I lost my mother to cancer fifteen years back and my memory of her is very limited. I wish I was old enough to remember more of her when she passed. But I was eight so my memory of her pertains to the small things. She was my tooth fairy. She was my…
The Purple Door
For those of you who think F.R.I.E.N.D.S is about a bunch of guys sitting on a couch for ten long seasons, I have something that might change that misconception! There are some amazingly beautiful things that I learnt on my F.R.I. E.N.D.S marathon having seen it over and over again and then some more. So…
Central Perk 