SUKHMANI MALHI

The experiences of transgender people cannot be excluded from the feminist aspirations for gender equality and freedom from stereotypes...

National identities and aspirations in the Indian context are often linked to women and the concept of motherhood. With political...

The perceptions of female celebrities as disposable commodities legitimize viewing them as frivolous and superficial, rather than as...

In December of 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act which provides illegal immigrants with a path to...

Throughout the decades, companies have been known to resort to multiple branding strategies in order to boost sales amongst people based...

Her is a science-fiction romantic drama, written, produced and directed by Spike Jonze, which follows the life of Theodore Twombly, set...

The modern cult classic, Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film which describes female high school social cliques and the...

Set in the small town of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Bareilly Ki Barfi is the riveting story of a young girl named...

I remember the first time you held out your hand to me, And how I thought my fingers would crumble We bought coke, but no popcorn And...

I When we were kids My brother and I would play A game called slow race I don’t know if that was when I learnt how fast time travels But...

Yesterday I checked my Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Click the link if you have no idea what I am talking about) after a really long time....

When the crooked are lovelorn And the young hidebound, There will be Another love Like ours When press flowers turn words to dust And...

There aren’t enough poems Written about brown eyes So let me write them All for you tonight Let me paint you a picture With my words Let...

Dear Mumma, Thank you for struggling With the knots in my hair At 5 am every morning For teaching me Who to love And how to love Thank...

Before you fall in love with a hopeless romantic, Know that we are the most hopeful People you will ever meet Know that my heart is not a...

I wrote your name, not carved on tree trunks or monument walls, but written through the fog on my bathroom mirror and on the back of my...

Old ticket stubs, and a newspaper cutting An old photograph, and my copy of your favorite book This is all we have left of each other...

I needed you then I will never need you again Our small hand-written notes and the heavy words on them don't weigh me down anymore I will...

In you, I found a home to go back to that I had never left. I found familiarity, that I didn't know I lacked. Strange how I found my home...

treasure hunting for yeses in our noes they push, pull, tug and shove at us like puppeteers always​ expecting us to be smaller, tinier,...

I wonder if you remember the cloud shaped birthmark on my left forearm or how my smile formed when we ended a fight the way I remember...

Ever since I got back to Pune after finalizing my admission, I've been breathing in every scent a little more carefully, taking mental...

I used to think that people are spectrums, and not in the sense that we can place people on a spectrum, ranging across different shades...

What does it say about our love if the closer you are, the less I recognize myself? Someone once told me that love feels like coming home...