Stuttering Archives

15 Years of Baghban: It’s All About Guilting Your Children

Baghban might have been a superhit when it released, but the film has aged very badly. The most damning part about the film is the reinforcement of the mistaken notion that all adults choosing to live their lives away from their parents, must certainly hate their elders and treat them like trash.

Jackie Thakkar July 27, 2016

First Person

Life on Stutter Island

When you’ve lived with a lifelong stutter, everyone around you seems to have immeasurable patience.

Kartik Maini June 29, 2016

Pop Culture

15 Years After Britney Sang About It, Why “Toxic” is Oxford’s Word of the Year

Fifteen years ago, Britney Spears made a frothy pop song about a toxic relationship. Today, in the era of #MeToo, the word has a very different connotation. It was so much in vogue over the last year that Oxford English Dictionary anointed it 2018’s Word of the Year.

Kahini Iyer June 8, 2016

POV

What My Stuttering Taught Me About Disabilities and Arranged Marriage

I grew up receiving the best of education, surrounded by the most loving friends and family and never being treated as “different” because of my speech impediment. But ever since I entered the “shaadi ki umar ho gaye hai” phase, my stammering has been viewed as an imperfection.

Umaima Saeed April 26, 2016