Girl Tribe

Aahana Kumra

Bollywood &amp; Celebrity

ItEndsWithMe

Lipstick under my burkha

API-Imported

Priyanka Parmar

Aahana Kumra Writes An Open Letter To India - An Asexual Nation | MissMalini

Actress, Aahana Kumra writes why it's time for India to open up and have a conversation about the most eluded topic - sex.

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Aahana Kumra Writes An Open Letter To India – An Asexual Nation - MissMalini

It is a topic that makes for impolite dinner table conversation but yet so saucy
when spoken with friends. It brings about an awkward silence amongst family
members who are out for a movie night at a multiplex when enacted on the screen
by actors but evokes desire when watched alone on smartphones in middle of the
night. While cultures have frowned upon its presence; they have still celebrated
it in monuments, art, writings, songs and acknowledge that it is the very
foundation of society’s survi

robots

Lifestyle

Harvey Weinstein

Sexual Assault

Toxic Masculinity

Team Interns

Here's Why Men In The US Are Taking Classes To Unlearn Toxic Masculinity & Why It's Important | MissMalini

We need to stop blaming the victim and start correcting the existing and potential offenders. And the time has come, it's finally happening!

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Here’s Why Men In The US Are Taking Classes To Unlearn Toxic Masculinity &#038; Why It’s Important - MissMalini

After the news of Harvey Weinstein
[/2018/01/11/sexual-assaulter-harvey-weinstein-was-slapped-and-called-a-piece-of-sht-at-a-restaurant/]
‘s scandal broke out, the google searches for Toxic Masculinity went up by 50%.
Harvey, who was in due course accused by more than 80 women of sexual harassment
[/2018/10/06/sexual-harassment-will-not-go-unchecked-by-missmalini-anymore/] and
assault, became the poster face of what is termed as toxic masculinity. To break
it down in simple terms, toxic masculin

Chetan Bhagat

timesup

Prashansa Daniell

A Huge Shift Is Happening: Indian Women Are Calling Out Abusive And Problematic Men | MissMalini

A twitter thread that's unravelling the one henious misconduct of a privileged male Indian man after another. THIS is something you just cannot scroll past.

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A Huge Shift Is Happening: Indian Women Are Calling Out Abusive And Problematic Men - MissMalini

After Utsav Chakraborty (@wootsav), ex-AIB comic, was called out for sexual
harassment just a few days ago on Twitter. Multiple other women are now using
the platform to openly talk about the various alleged sexual offenders they have
encountered that include personalities like Chetan Bhagat, Anurag Verma (better
known as @KitAnurag), Mayank Jain (Principal Correspondent at Business Standard
), and well-known singer Kailash Kher. This collective information was bought to
our attention thanks to 

Kerala

MissMalini

Kerala Nun Rape Case: Why We Need To Say #ItEndsWithMe Now More Than Ever - MissMalini

Bishop Mulakkal allegedly raped a nun for a span of two years and the case was only recently brought to light. Read all about it here.

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Just a few weeks ago, Bishop Franco Mulakkal was accused of raping a 44-year-old
nun and this is all the more reason for each one of us to say #ItEndsWithMe
[/video/itendswithme/]. Time and time again we hear of these bone-chilling
atrocities, and it saddens our hearts each time we report them.

The Bishop had been continually raping the nun for 2 years between 2014-2016,
and only in June did she file a complaint alleging that she was sexually
assaulted by him multiple times in the Kuravilangad 

Suicide

Here's How You Can Equip Yourself To Help A Possibly Suicidal Friend | MissMalini

The struggle of depression and suicidal thoughts is a long and hard one, here you can learn how to be someone's refuge in time of trouble.

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/09/10/heres-how-you-can-equip-yourself-to-help-a-possibly-suicidal-friend

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Here’s How You Can Equip Yourself To Help A Possibly Suicidal Friend - MissMalini

Each time we read about suicide in the newspaper, or hear about it on TV or even
see an Instagram post related to the topic, we immediately think of how much
that person needs to get help. And while that is every human’s natural response,
I think it’s time we shift our perspective a little bit. It’s time we take on
the responsibility to care for our friends in ways that we might think are small
but make a huge difference to their well being.

The signs of a possibly suicidal friend or colleague 

Television

Rannvijay Singha

Roadies

Television Celebrity

Television Gossip

Here's Why We Need More Men Like Rannvijay Singha | MissMalini

Rannvijay Singha is empathetic yet fearless towards facing everything that's wrong in the society and here's why we need more men like him.

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/08/22/heres-why-we-need-more-men-like-rannvijay-singha

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Here’s Why We Need More Men Like Rannvijay Singha - MissMalini


It was the ‘reality show’ called, Roadies that brought Rannvijay Singha
[/2018/01/17/aww-rannvijay-singha-posts-a-sweet-message-for-his-daughter-kainaat-on-her-first-birthday/] 
into the limelight. While Rannvijay’s claim to fame was his survival on the
show, it’s actually his personality and spirit that earned him fans across the
globe. He has, on multiple occasions voiced his strong and fearless opinions
about respecting, protecting and empowering the women in one’s life and the ones
you may 

Self Care

self love

Upasana Shetty

Where's The Line Between Self Love And Self Improvement? | MissMalini

Conforming to stereotypes is not the same as self-care in my opinion and this why.

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/08/22/wheres-the-line-between-self-love-and-self-improvement

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Where’s The Line Between Self Love And Self Improvement? - MissMalini

Standing in front of the mirror, I am always hit with the same dilemma:
self-love or self-improvement?
Firstly, when did self-love become an opponent of self-improvement? Secondly,
how often do people slip into self-destruction in the name of self-improvement?
Our senses are constantly fed with beauty standards through various forms of
media—posters, magazine covers, social networking sites, commercials. I think we
all are aware that most of these standards are an illusion created with the help


How My Life Changed Growing Up In A Male-Skewed Classroom | MissMalini

I grew up in a classroom full of boys and unknowningly used it to my advantage and learned some of life's greatest lessons.

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How My Life Changed Growing Up In A Male-Skewed Classroom - MissMalini

I think we’ll all agree that 80% of the classrooms in India are skewed towards
the male gender. And growing up in those very classrooms, as a female helped me
discover a side of myself I didn’t know existed. I grew up in Dehradun, a small
but mighty city in Uttarakhand. While there was no lack of female companionship
in my batch, a part of me always vibed better with the boys in my class.

Akansha JoshiThere were many advantages as well as disadvantages to being the ‘only’ girl
that hung out wit

career

equality

Gender Equality

girls

India

Indian

Women

Neha Verma

You Are A Boy, Don't Cry Like Girls | MissMalini

In the name of equality, we consider men to be strong and women as weaker beings. I feel like the way men are perceived should be changed.

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/08/15/you-are-a-boy-dont-cry-like-girls

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You Are A Boy, Don’t Cry Like Girls - MissMalini

We hear a lot of people around us talking about equality and uplifting women.
 The question is whether we are doing every possible thing to empower women? And
if we are, then why is it not working? In my opinion, there is a gap that we
know of, but don’t do enough about. The gap is– how we treat men in our society.
That has a big impact on achieving equality, and it’s sad that we largely ignore
that.

Think about how children are raised in a typical Indian household. A girl is
comforted, console

Evita-Marie Marques

The Romanticisation Of Eve-Teasing And Why It Needs to Stop | MissMalini

Gender-based harassment is spreading like an epidemic in European countries. Perhaps it's time the West looked East for answers.

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/08/08/the-romanticisation-of-eve-teasing-and-why-it-needs-to-stop

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The Romanticisation Of Eve-Teasing And Why It Needs to Stop - MissMalini

Gender-based harassment is spreading like an epidemic in European countries.
Perhaps it’s time the West looked East for answers.

It was only last month that Parisian woman, Marie Laguerre, 22, posted a video
on Facebook of her being hit
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in the face by a man, after she shut him down for his wolf whistling. The video
has since gone viral due to the shocking nature of Laguerre being ass

Change

Mental Health

Observe. Ask. Listen - Let's Talk Our Way To Mental Well-Being | MissMalini

Mental Wellness: In an age as competitive and fast paced as this, we all need to take a pause and check up on ourselves and our loved ones.

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Observe. Ask. Listen – Let’s Talk Our Way To Mental Well-Being - MissMalini

Source: Instagram @clumsysismynormalOur generation is made of dreamers,
explorers, achievers, no doubt we’re so busy all the time. Busy with making sure
we have a financially secure future, making the most of the youth we have left,
managing our love and sex life, paying bills, engaging in experiences that claim
to be life-changing… and most of them truly are too. We’re also looking at
alternate careers, taking life one day at a time, we can be equally lost,
looking for something that excites us

Rashmi Bhosale

Parents, Start Talking To Your Children About Childhood Sexual Abuse | MissMalini

Awareness of child sexual abuse is the need of the hour. It starts when you’re a child, it ends when you’re aware. Let's all take a stand against it.

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Parents, Start Talking To Your Children About Childhood Sexual Abuse - MissMalini

Child Sexual AbuseDon’t play in the mud, don’t eat too much chocolate, don’t run
so much, don’t cry—Just a few of the numerous minute instructions we give our
children every day. But we ignore the uncomfortable yet important advice we
should be giving them. For example, to seek help whenever someone makes them
feel uncomfortable or to run home as fast as they can when someone follows them
or to scream at the top of their voice when someone touches them
inappropriately. Recovery from a childhood 

Bullying

heart

It's Time We Stop Trying To Casually 'Fix' People With The Words We Say | MissMalini

Let’s create a world where we all can talk to each other without the fear of being scarred. Creating fewer wounds is better than filling them up later.

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It’s Time We Stop Trying To Casually ‘Fix’ People With The Words We Say - MissMalini

A Pledge To Become Conscious | Image Source: www.shutterstock.com“I’ve learned
that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

This resonates with all of us, right? We all make each other feel something
every day – good, bad, ugly, insufficient, empowered and the list goes on. We
have the power to make people around us feel
[/2018/03/08/mental-health-awareness-why-its-okay-to-talk-about-how-youre-feelin

Natasha Patel

The Harsh Reality Of Being A Female Driver In India | MissMalini

A humble plea to stop the "woman driver" jokes, finger pointing and excessive honking on the roads. Thank you!

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The Harsh Reality Of Being A Female Driver In India - MissMalini

“Oh, it must be a woman driver.” Nothing annoys me more than these words. Being
a woman who drives a car differently than a man might doesn’t make me less
qualified behind the wheel, nor should I automatically become the victim of
every driving joke. The struggles I face as a female driver may seem
insignificant compared to more serious forms of “harassment,” but it is still a
form of sexism.

It isn’t fair that women get branded as being a “bad driver” because they might
not be able to parallel

Girl

Hrishitaa Sharma

This short poem captures the essence of what it's like being a girl in a misogynistic world—The struggle, the fight and all.

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Because I Am A Girl?
It’s not the skirt,

It’s not the colour of my skin or my lipstick,

It’s the fact that I am a girl.

Am I seen for my education or the career I chose?

Am I seen for my work or the responsibilities I uphold?

Am I seen for my kind heart or the love I spread?

But because I am a girl you’ll abuse me and leave me for dead.

Will I be safe when I reach a certain age?

Will I break the shackles of patriarchy or will it always dictate?

Will you think in your head that I am aski