Where inhibitions are set free!

Author Radhika Gopakumar

My friends say I am a very hyperactive, noisy person; although my blogs might not reflect that. I blog mainly about confused feelings I get from insane reveries I have. I have to be super-depressed, super-excited or super-pissed off to write, thereby making my writing pretty much emotional (or so people tell me). There have been people who have loved me for what I write, there have also been people who have despised me for it. Whichever way, I continue to write because I believe in doing what I like, no matter what others say.

Revamping the ‘Respect Curriculum’

Most of you must be familiar with the name of Ranu Mondal, a singing sensation who became the Internet’s darling after being spotted by chance on a railway platform. One of those stories that makes you feel good about social… Continue Reading →

21-Dec-2019

I have been seeing posts about how people remaining silent, people not saying anything regarding the ongoing CAA-NRC protests on social media are wrong in not taking a stand and saying something. And I was thinking, maybe they are not… Continue Reading →

Mommy Ramblings – #17

“A little patience can go a long way” – Golden words of wisdom that every mother remembers right after losing her shit completely with her kids and triggering a round of howling that can only be handled by turning back… Continue Reading →

9-Dec-2019

Today’s news of a 20-year-old girl set ablaze by her stalker in Muzaffarpur is the simplest explanation to people who hail Telangana police as heroes for the encounter killing of rapists as to why it is not in any way… Continue Reading →

Condemn Not, Condone Not

Like all of India, I woke up today to the news from Telangana of the death of 4 men who gangraped and murdered a 26-year-old veterinarian only 10 days ago. My first response was “Good! The bastards deserved it!” After… Continue Reading →

Misogyny in Movies – Q&A

I have been receiving some questions and views on my last post which was an extension of the forever-ongoing “Kabir Singh”/”Arjun Reddy” controversy which I was staying away from till now. I thought of replying to my friends in their… Continue Reading →

27-Nov-2019

Reading post after post, comment after comment countering #ParvathyIsALegend and bashing Parvathy Thiruvoth for being ‘an arrogant b**** who doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut and gives out opinion on public forums when not asked’. And laughing out loud… Continue Reading →

Casual Evils

I was reading about the social media outrage on Kartik Aryan’s rant normalizing marital rape in ‘Pati Patni Aur Woh’. I then read the justifications masked as apology from ‘sources’ close to the makers as well as from the lead… Continue Reading →

The ‘Menon’ Controversy

I had written a blog in July about how people use religion and caste as their favourite tool for division and bring those into issues that have nothing to do with them. One of the examples I had used in… Continue Reading →

Mommy Ramblings – #16

I taught my daughter the names of all the fingers. I now have a toddler who walks around with her middle finger raised and saying “Middle finger, middle finger” for two minutes before saying the names of the other fingers…. Continue Reading →

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