Ritika Ruminates

Devi and Nalini from Never Have I Ever Image source- Vulture To start with, Happy Mother's Day! My mom asked me to write a blog on mother or father for as long as I remember. So here it goes. Mother-daughters share a peculiar love-hate relationship. This is especially true once girls touch their late teenage years when opinions are quite contrasting. Nowadays, this can be even earlier with youngsters getting access to media with all the different opinions and perspectives to choose from. If there is no acceptance of one from either side, accepting of the opinions or person they are, which happens more often than not, it leads to fights. Repeated cycles of being close and happy and arguing and not speaking to each other. Me and my mom are like North and south poles on a lot of topics like marriage, kids, weddings, religion, etc. While I'm the one who supports low-key weddings, my mom would like to invite the whole and nearby districts if I ever get married and spend truckloads o...

  Image source- India Weekly This picture is all over the internet, as a cartoon depicting India's population overtaking China's. Receiving a severe backlash from Indian citizens and politicians, it has been termed 'racist'. Compared to China, it may be racist but it depicts the reality too. India is still a developing country, and many of its population fail to get access to basic resources for survival. Many still struggle for shelter, food, clothing and a hygienic environment (washrooms and menstrual products for women). Resources in India fall short to satisfy the basic needs of the country's population.  Of course, a part of the Chinese population also lives in poverty and cannot access basic resources for survival. But being developed, and what is feared, a soon-to-be superpower, the majority of its population gets access to the basic resources. Even though they cannot speak anything against their government. Their earlier one-child policy had reduced the youn...