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The Woman Who Irons Your Festive Clothes and the Distance Between Two Wardrobes

She arrives before you are fully awake. By the time you come to the kitchen for chai, your Kanjeevaram is already breathing on the hanger, its gold zari catching the early light in a way it never does inside the cupboard. You did not ask her to start with the…

Times Life · 4h ago

Your Mother's Sarees Are an Inheritance and a Grief That No One Knows How to Divide

The trunk nobody wants to be the first to openIt smells like her. That is the first thing. Before you have even lifted the lid all the way, the smell reaches you, naphthalene balls and something underneath them, something that is just her, the particular warmth of a woman who…

Times Life · Sep 26

Indian Women Are Reclaiming Full Brows, But Threading Damage Made Some Changes Permanent

You Asked for Thinner. The Salon Obliged.You sat in the chair and said the same thing every Indian girl said in the 2000s: "Make them thin. Clean. Like an arch." The threading didi pulled the cotton thread taut and you winced and felt, briefly, like you were becoming the right…

Times Life · Sep 1

Meet Surya Rajappan, the Delhi lawyer who had to leave her house for protesting against Amit Shah

On January 5, during Home Minister Amit Shah’s door-to-door campaign in Delhi, a video went viral on social media, of two women shouting slogans against the citizenship law from the balcony of their apartment in Lajpat Nagar. After Shah left the area, a mob landed at the women’s flat. 

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2020