Bollywood times As an Indian Gujarati, I grew up watching Hindi movies depicting stereotypical gender roles and personalities such as: the domineering mother-in-law who believes…
Reena AnandOctober 16, 2019
Being a mum of an autistic child I've learnt to flexibly adapt my plans to suit my eldest's mood - often it works but sometimes…
Reena AnandMay 12, 2019
I'm the eldest of three children who grew up in a traditional Indian Gujarati household where the gender roles were squarely defined. This meant that…
Reena AnandMarch 11, 2019
To understand the context of this statement let me tell you a bit about me. I’m a Hindu Gujarati. My father was born in the…
Reena AnandFebruary 24, 2019
To yourself, I hear you ask. She calls herself a writer but talks about standing up to rather than for yourself? You read right. I'll…
Reena AnandFebruary 2, 2019
Seven years ago I lost my baby. Though others didn’t call it that. It was called a ‘missed miscarriage’, a foetus, a zygote and ‘it’…
Reena AnandJanuary 22, 2019
Autism creates an interesting reaction amongst Indians. There’s the Fix-Its who’ll say “we’ll find a doctor in India that will have a cure” (because obviously…
Reena AnandJanuary 4, 2019
Cancer When I was 22, I stopped my Masters degree to became a full time carer for my terminally ill mum; she had cancer. She’d…
Reena AnandDecember 22, 2018
So, like most working mums, I pretty much work at full throttle 100 percent of the time. A typical day looks a bit like this:…
Reena AnandDecember 10, 2018
