Category: diva di’vine

  • Following Mama’s footsteps.. bring up baby

    We become parents the moment we give have a child, but parenting is a different game ball 24/7 is the only shift they offer specially if you’re a mother, I have heard about this from my grandmother one who would be 100 odd years if she was alive and another who would be 90, and…

  • Let parents be Parents

    I was musing over this input. Actually my parenting beliefs are very unconventional; my sister-in-law says I am a failure as a mother because I have not insisted that my daughters go to four and twenty classes that every true Indian child attends. My daughters I am proud to say are extremely mature beautiful girls…

  • Papa’s Dashavataar…

    Once upon a time America used to live by the motto, ”Father  knows best” now they are in a state where they are lucky if “Father Knows he has children” they’ve become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies, with the movie Vicky Donor, and increasing romanticizing of surrogate parenthood of the Khans I…

  • International Widow Day

    Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, ‘She must weep or she will die.’ Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly…

  • Unearthing menstrual wisdom – Why we don’t go to the temple, and other practices

    Unearthing menstrual wisdom – Why we don’t go to the temple, and other practices

    Originally posted on Mythri Speaks: On the second year of the world menstrual hygiene day on May 28th, I write this blog. I write it as I read articles, posters and materials dismissing cultural practices around menstruation, calling them Menstrual Taboos. I write it as I read about organizations deciding for Indian women based on…

  • Parental fears—breaking family ties that bind.

    When I went to get a past life regression done, no matter what I did I could not go into a past life, all that I could see was darkness, and experience tremendous fear.  Third time round when that happened,  I was training under Dr.Yuvraj Kapadia of EKAA,(http://ekaa.co.in} and guess what, the familiar black, the…