We are a nation of self-proclaimed medical geniuses: From acne to cancer, we always have a concoction or a home remedy or a pill that someone we know took sometime for a similar problem. What makes Indians who can afford healthcare so averse to seeking appropriate medical help?

Children, irrespective of what a birth certificate claims, should be allowed to explore and own any gender role that they think fit. They should get to decide what they’re comfortable with before society imposes restrictions on what they can and cannot be.

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In the recent spate of #MeToo outings, some of the smartest men in this country have been exposed as harassers. Men who abused their power and refused to use their judgment about how to talk to women, and what to talk to women about. These aren’t as grey as they’re sometimes made out to be.

India’s #MeToo movement might currently be limited to urban, educated women, but it’s still a start. Its momentum might soon enable women across the socio-economic spectrum to call out their predators. Let’s hope it percolates to women most vulnerable to violence.

It took the clout of 20 powerful and credible women to bring down one harasser. What message does this send to India’s women, whose harassers are not public figures, and who are not the nation’s top journalists and writers? That their stories will be ignored?

At a family gathering, my four-year-old niece told my father that he was “brown and dirty” and she did not want him to touch her. How did she suddenly become an ambassador for Fair and Lovely? Is it possible for children to be racist?

Over the last year or so we’ve witnessed instances of seemingly progressive, “woke” men, who women should have been able to rely on, being lashed by the very wind they pretended to change the direction of. The latest case in point is that of comedian Utsav Chakraborty, accused of having harassed several women over social media

Hidayatullah National Law University students have been up in arms, protesting rampant sexual harassment on campus. This could have been a story about the strength of young women fighting the embedded structures of educational institutions. But it seems in danger of becoming a reminder of the impunity of men in powerful positions.

There’s an unspoken understanding that men are entitled to their appetites. But any woman who eats more than her acceptable “womanly” quota is spoken about in hushed whispers. For all our liberal outlook, the food that women of my generation heap onto our plates is still coloured by the assumption that we’re meant to eat less.