Inattentional Blindness

When I was five, my friend’s grandfather forced himself on me. I called for help repeatedly but none came. In that moment, inside that MRI m

My surgeon father told me that operations were frightening, because some people lived, some died, and some dangled in between. The ones that

I grew up in a house where boys were groomed to make their will known from a young age, while girls were taught to be demure. So I learned h

During the 1971 war, as India clashed with Pakistan, disinformation gained a life of its own, recalls Shalini Asher. Today, highly vitriolic

This week’s fracas at Aligarh Muslim University – slandered as a “university of terrorists” – ended with 14 students being charged

At 19, my aunt, who I once suspected of being a little bit butch, lashed out at my mother for trying to fix my engagement with a girl. She u

Falling out of friendships rarely gets as much attention as falling out of love. A breakup between friends does not carry the weight of the