extended family
The World’s Largest Family Tree Is Really Just a Map of Colonialism
Last week, the world’s largest family tree was revealed. Comprising 13 million people, and crowdsourced from profiles on the platform Geni.com, the first scientifically vetted tree of this size contains “the stories of whole countries and, at the risk of
Aishwarya, Abhishek, and the Glorification of the Indian Joint Family
“Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan Will Never Move out of Jalsa” screamed the headlines. “Why do I care? And whose business is it besides theirs, you patriarchal twits?” I screamed back. Unfortunately, webpages cannot hear us (yet). And, thus, a rant
The Subtle Forces Pulling Working Women Home
Much has been said about the so-called leaking pipeline of Indian women dropping out of the workforce. We’ve posited many explanations for this phenomenon, from corporate policies to inadequate government protection to workplace bias or women’s own ambition. But so far,
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