Maitreyee Upadhyay, Author at Arré

About Maitreyee Upadhyay

What Makes Relationships Work? My Husband and I Try to Find Answers in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story

In Marriage Story, Nicole and Charlie spend two hours discovering that abandoning your individuality doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It just leaves you more confused. My husband agreed. This was the ultimate takeaway from the film – I felt we’d struck gold with our experiment.

Maitreyee Upadhyay May 6, 2016

Gender

I’m Not Nirbhaya. Or Shakti. I’m Just Scared

Each time I find myself on a deserted road, my mind goes into overdrive. I think of objects I have that could be used as weapons such as the handle of my bag or the cord of my phone charger with which I could strangle a potential assailant. But that’s not just me. That’s every woman in India.

Maitreyee Upadhyay April 16, 2016