The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Mumbai woman throws off son, jumps to death (source)
What horror pushed Malad mom to this? (source)

Men may do the same; throw children off the verandas and terraces and then kill themselves. While all observable qualities may be ascribed to either genders, we hold certain malaises as specific and incidental to women.

What is a woman’s sense of destiny. To what extent do they bring their emotional self into the realm of destiny. Rather, how easily do they …

Kartikey Sehgal
I cannot accept the mirth of trivialities. Of a living below life. I’d rather joke with the honest labourer whose design on the wet brick is hardened by the sun; harmony between nature and men.

But I am given, and society has ordained, the acceptance of rooms without sunlight, precision defined within dark windows and glass doors.