Child Sexual Abuse Never Leaves You: Adult Survivors Speak Up

There are often blank spaces in many child sexual abuse survivors’ memories – who bury the abuse and often return to confront it only as adults. They return, either with determination to find some semblance of justice, or with the hope that speaking about their stories will help someone today, to s…

Surviving Alcoholism: Who Pays the Price For Alcohol Addiction?

“My mother was hospitalised. I was supposed to stay in the hospital and look after her. But the moment I found time, I went to the wine shop and got myself a bottle. Then I’d come back, inebriated, and sleep in a blackout,” says 53-year-old Pulin. He's a former alcoholic who has been sober for over…

Unmute Ep 5: The Subtle Art of Gaslighting

In 1938 British Playwright Patrick Hamilton wrote a play called Gaslight. It also got adapted into a an award-winning film in 1944. It’s a psychological thriller around a married couple — the woman comes from wealth and the husband realizes she is his jackpot and so he drives manipulates her into b…

UnMute Ep 4: What Happens When You Accuse Your Boss of Sexual Harassment?

Tune in to the second episode of Unmute – a podcast series where we have little-heard voices speak out loud. In this episode, I speak to two survivors of sexual harassment at the workplace. They both worked in the same organisation and were sexually harassed by the same man, who was the MD of the …

Unmute Episode 3: Breaking The Glass Ceiling

What does it feel to be living as a woman, working as a woman in a male-dominated world? There are still a number of restrictions on women. In fact, believe it or not, women aren’t allowed to apply for mining jobs in China, in Russia women can’t be truckers. Closer to home in India, women haven’t …

Unmute Episode 2: Trials of Trans-itions

Tune in to the second episode of Unmute — a podcast series where we get voices little heard to speak out loud. In this episode I spoke to some members of the transgender community. Although the community has culturally been a significant part of Indian society, when it comes to providing quality o…

Unmute Episode 1: The Baggage of Masculinity

In the first episode of the Unmute podcast series we speak to men on growing up in a patriarchal tradition with expectations of masculinity. So, how do boys and men deal with masculinity? Tune in!