The First Day

The first day of my engineering college is etched carefully in my mental map, simply because it was the first day of my life post school. I had been crazy with excitement, redoing my wardrobe, carefully choosing accessories, discussing dares and ragging stuff with my schoolmates. I had been so brainwashed by the movies and literature of the times that glorified college days as the rosiest days of one’s life that I was expecting something akin to Grown-ish or Friends or even Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na in my new college…

Evesplaining the phenomenon of Mansplaining

‘Mansplaining’ as the internet explains to you is a blend of 'man' and the informal form 'splaining' of the gerund ‘explaining’. It is a pejorative term defining a situation when a man comments on or explains something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner Lily Rothman, of The Atlantic, defines it as ‘explaining without regard to the fact that the … Continue reading Evesplaining the phenomenon of Mansplaining