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Girls and The City: Navigating Ambition, Love, And Life In An Imperfect World

By Manreet Sodhi Someshwar November 2, 2020 In Books, Culture 0 Book, Book excerpt 0

The city is fuelled by aspiration, Juhi, her boss liked to say. And we are the fuel that fuels those aspirations, magicians who create ads that convince people that what they want is what they don’t have.

Gautam Bhatia’s The Wall Explores The Meaning Of Freedom

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT September 20, 2020September 26, 2020 In Books, Culture 0 Book excerpt, Books 0

Evening came to Sumer. The last beams of the declining sun snagged upon the towers of the Forum, painting them golden and then blood-red.

7 Books That’ll End Your Reading Slump

By Purabi Chatterjee September 15, 2020October 31, 2020 In Books, Culture 1 Books, Reading Slumps 0

Reading slumps are natural and in a never-ending lockdown like 2020, the desire to read ebbs and flows. These seven books are guaranteed to reverse your reading slump and get back between the sheets… of paper!

How To Use Meditation To Ease Anxiety

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT July 7, 2020 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture, Mental Health 0 ANXIETY, book review 0

The opposite of anxiety is mindfulness. Mindfulness is not a bundle of techniques; instead, it’s an attitude, a conscious shift in becoming more present.

Book Excerpt: No Regrets by Kaveree Bamzai

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT October 17, 2019October 18, 2019 In Culture 1 Books, kaveree Bamzai 0

Replete with advice from successful women of all ages and in all fields, Kaveree Bamzai’s No Regrets is more than a self-help book.

How to be Successful in Bollywood if you are not a man: An Excerpt from F-Rated by Nandita Dutta

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT August 12, 2019 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture, Event Round Up 2 Bolly women directors, Bollywood 0

F-Rated is a book by Nandita Dutta that profiles 11 female Bollywood directors. The book shows women as not a homogenous group,

11 Must-Read Books About Violence Against Women

By Avantika Mehta November 25, 2017May 26, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 Books, IDEVAW 0

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. We thought the best way to observe it would be to put together a list of books that inform and educate about the prevalence and repercussions of violence against women.

#NaNoWrMo: Nilanjana Roy

By Avantika Mehta November 7, 2017December 3, 2017 In Books, Culture 0 Author Processes, Books 0

Nilanjana Roy is a prolific writer who runs one of India’s most respected book review websites. She is also the author of several novels including The Wildlings and The Hundred Name of Darkness.

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