Even as you distance yourself from the rest of the world, you may find yourself in close quarters, maybe too close a quarter, with your immediate family. Both you and your children may be feeling a valid sense of lack of space and privacy, especially if the household includes a teenager. Being able to move...

It can be extremely hard for parents to constantly meaningfully engage their children & ensure that their learning doesn’t stop during quarantine. There has been a lot of discussion on ‘setting a routine’ for children. Routine is a structure with the help of which one proceeds to complete daily activities. Children don’t have a lot...

Quarantine can turn houses into breeding grounds of conflict. Some conflicts may have always existed but there were distractions, distance and breaks from each other that helped us to ignore if not tolerate them. While differences like food choices, preferences of TV channels, etc. used to be dealt with ease, they may become strenuous subjects...

A lot of our anxiety is borrowed from sensational fake news going around in the social media & messaging platforms. Even mainstream news networks in catering to TRPs rather than thorough journalism have churned out more than their regular share of dubious news items. And since the newspapers have stopped publication we have no other...

The India Inequality Report 2020, released by Oxfam India in January, highlighted that the time spent on unpaid care work among women in urban areas is 312 minutes per day and 291 minutes daily in rural areas. Men correspondingly spend only 29 minutes (urban) and 32 minutes (rural) on the same. There is a Gender...