The First Encounter
Tripti, a gynecologist by profession, walks us through the world of a new medico. She shows us the fine line between a doctor-to-be and a young girl scared of ghosts...
The Flickering Diyas
Tripti retells the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. Here’s Sita’s agony that was perhaps never told in a patriarchal epic, as the special feature on International Women’s Day, exclusively for...
A Spurious Existence
Two women in denial. One wanted a daughter from her second husband after 11 pregnancies – two deaths and six abortions. Belonging to Tajikistan, she donned a hijab but...
Cancer: A Viral Truth
Cancer cervix is leading cancer in Indian women and the second most common worldwide. A known cause, HPV ( Human Papilloma Virus), a known mode of spread i.e sexually transmitted...
Children of the Past
Raising boys with raging hormones is not an easy task. Tripti found that her growing up son hastily closed his laptop and jumped from the bed. He asked a question...
A Crowded Loneliness
There are several positive things about large and extended families (read the joint family system). Often, parents-in- law snoop into the private lives of their daughters-in- law. It’s stifling and suffocating....
The Twilight
Sexual behavior of the elderly especially the ‘Human Female’ of the menopausal age group is relatively a new subject to be talked about. The society looks down upon desire and...
Love’s Labour
There is something so divine about a women laboring to give birth. It is, as if she is working with God to create life. But does she indeed have a...
The Paradigm
Dating, boozing, premarital sex are the ‘in-thing’ these days. It has confused teenage girls, who have to deal with hormonal rush and peer pressures. A gynecologist, Tripti, recounts the confusion of...
Chicken Soup and Chocolate Pie
A gynaecologist and mother of two boys, Tripti feels that she is more of a referee with these two siblings. She reveals many curiosities of growing children these days....