CHIMI

  Argus-eyed women tracing their speedy steps back home while the world rests in the arms of Morpheus is not a novel site to this country. The regular columns of newspapers replete with heinous crimes and brutal assaults committed to such women have become the new normal the country wakes up to every day. From the Nirbhaya case in Delhi, the brutal murder of Soumya in Kerala and the Disha rape case in Hyderabad, cases of rape, assault, and murder of women in India are manifold. What seemed like sporadic events half a century ago are occurring like an avalanche in recrudescence since the past decade or so. The weeks that would follow such events are usually public talks and articles by intellectual minds pontificating about the issue and political parties indulging in the normal blame game. We seldom seem to look beyond these and fathom the reasons for such intolerable crimes recording an upsurge in our country. We often hear people say that changes need to start from the ground; wo...

  Young folks who do not take extensive interest in the lives of feminine and masculine beauties, their skincare routine, what they eat in a day and their workout regimen might be taken by shock if I were to suggest that paradox rules in the virtual beauty world we currently live in. This argument emanates from my rather late discovery of a family that has had a long-running show to their name and has been claimed to set unbreakable records in the glam world. Well, to hit the nail on the head, what caught my attention was an old, more so unnoticed, and most importantly uncontroversial interview of one family member who made a remarkable statement that she hates people who hate themselves and that people should be taught to love themself the way they are. I mentally appreciated her for the grandiose statement she had just made and proceeded to search the web to know more about the respected lady. The images in the search results took me by surprise. She, who had sent out a message f...