A mother and her teenaged daughter reflect on how the Indian society views educated urban women today, based on print and TV ads that they have recently seen. Vani Viswanathan tracks their conversation.
Life often gets us down to a point we can longer function. Everything seems to be drag us further into the mire. We struggle to operate. But, despite the wallowing, we survive and finally tomorrow seems hopeful. Barbara Gurney writes a poem on a woman who is struggling but has the willpower to reach out to help and take hold of her life.
Parth Pandya tells the story of three working women, disparate from each other, but subject to common societal norms.