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.

A Hapless Mother’s Death – Who’s Responsible?

Hardly a few weeks back, I happened to watch a viral video of a 7 or 8-month-old baby who was being rescued after she fell off the balcony of her 4th floor flat in Chennai. It took 15 minutes of… Continue Reading →

No Means No

I have been at my parents’ home for a few weeks now for the kids’ school vacation. And in these two weeks, the most I have struggled with is something seemingly simple – getting my mother to take “No” as… Continue Reading →

Uncle Sam and the Not-so-Different Indians

Two days back, like most other sensible Indians, I did a facepalm when I listened to Sam Pitroda aka Uncle Sam’s mindboggling (read mind-numbing) monologue on India’s beautiful unity in diversity. The look on his face can only be termed… Continue Reading →

Victim (n) – One Who Is Denied Basic Dignity

“Soundaryam Sarikku vinayayi,” – “Sari’s beauty became her curse.” This headline, along with the picture of a girl, hardly 17 years old, in one of the major Malayalam newspapers is still fresh in my memory. Equally fresh is the loud… Continue Reading →

Mommy Ramblings – #39

My girls could apply to the Malayala Manorama media house today and land a job as a reporter right away. The precision, accuracy and exact route map with which they explain the how, when, where and what of something is… Continue Reading →

Casting Couch and the Privilege Called Choice

If I apply for a job somewhere, and I’m told that I have the choice to either sleep with the hiring manager and get the job, or walk away and not get the job, how do you think I would… Continue Reading →

FB – 22-Mar-2024

If yesterday, Sathyabhama Jr. (just learnt that there was another Kalamandalam Sathyabhama whose name it could be a disgrace to if we address this lady by the same moniker) was a villain who insulted people based on their complexion and… Continue Reading →

FB – 21-Mar-2024

Like most other Malayalis today, I was watching Kalamandalam Sathyabhama’s unapologetic, fierce and for lack of better terms, shameless, fight with the journalists, defending and emphatically reiterating her crass thoughts on regressive beauty standards and who she believes to be… Continue Reading →

FB – 14-Mar-2024

Being ‘childlike’ is a quality to be proud of. Being ‘childish’ is not. Sadly, there are quite a lot of people who need to understand this difference. You can still be young at heart, laugh and make others laugh, without… Continue Reading →

Honesty – The Best Policy

A while back, I read a post about a bride who dumped her groom at the mandap itself right after tying the knot. The reason was that she came to know only then about a very serious condition he had… Continue Reading →

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