Riddhi K, Author at Arré

How Your Fast Fashion is Slowly Killing the Earth

Our clothes now hardly last us for a year, and yet each piece of machine-made denim sold takes about a hundred litres of water to make. Once the denim loses its grip, it finds a way into our landfills. And that polyester in your jacket takes about 200 years to decompose.

Riddhi K July 16, 2016

POV

To All The Hiring Managers Who’ve Ghosted Me Before

I was once randomly dumped after six rounds of interviews, which included writing an elaborate test, over a generic text message. Even by modern dating standards that was cruel. Dear hiring executives, how about putting the human in Human Resource management?

Riddhi K July 1, 2016

People

The In-Betweeners: Millennials Who Aren’t Millennial Enough

We were born in the ’80s; and we’re millennials too. But we’re also the last generation to have actually known what life without internet and mobile phones looked like.

Riddhi K June 23, 2016

POV

Why We Must Think Twice Before Having Children

Consider Earth to be a sinking ship, the immersion of which is accelerated by more and more people jumping on board. What do we seek by reproducing? Why don’t we address the elephant in the room: Procreation?

Riddhi K June 9, 2016

POV

My Rich Friends Want Epic Weekends, I Want to Pay Rent

People like me sweat the small stuff, while my investment banker friends worry about how to make an epic weekend. Your Saturday-Sundays then become the equivalent of a Bhansali film. You look forward to having a great time but end up feeling massively ripped off and questioning your life choices.

Riddhi K May 10, 2016

Earth

A Nation of Litterbugs: Why Swachh Bharat Will Always Remain an Unfulfilled Dream

Not only do Indians have an astonishing lack of civic sense, we can also counter it with classic whataboutery. India will continue to top lists of dirtiest cities in the world, until we teach the next generation to pick up after themselves, instead of posing with brooms on social media.

Riddhi K May 2, 2016

Gender

“You’re a Good Girl Na?”: Why We’re Raising Our Girls Wrong

If we need women to break out of the exhausting idea of selflessness, then pressuring them to “be a good girl” is exactly the sort of thing that needs to stop. What we need is a culture that sees dissent and opinion as signs of progress, beyond the myopic view of parental disobedience.

Riddhi K April 30, 2016

POV

“Everything Will Be Fine!”: Will It Really? Let’s Talk about Toxic Positivity

The “positive vibes only” clan has been on an overdrive during this pandemic. When I was struggling to find work last April, I was bombarded with messages asking me to “cheer up” and “look at the bright side”. I felt like everyone was forcing optimism onto me and it was really suffocating.

Riddhi K April 24, 2016

POV

India’s Two-Faced Eco-Activism: We Celebrate Van Mahotsav and then Axe Trees At Aarey

The Save Aarey activists are neither paid puppets with a hidden agenda nor overly woke anarchists. It has always been a citizen’s movement, and at the heart of it are people who have jobs to do, bills to pay, and are just as worried that this city will completely implode one day.

Riddhi K April 16, 2016

POV

Is the “Follow Your Passion” Advice Full of Crap?

In my early 20s, I did the “cool” thing – quit my stable banking job to study film writing. Like many millennials and Gen Z, I just wanted to “follow my passion”. I wish someone had told me the hard truth about chasing dreams.

Riddhi K March 16, 2016