Mommy Talk

Kaveree Bamzai

Motherhood memoirs are in fashion, with celebrities dispensing advice on all things from the medical to the psychological

Kalki Koechlin’s mommy memoir is like her: candid, creative and full of truths that the merchants of bliss don’t reveal

A psychedelic trip into the abyss

Pallavi Aiyar bravely highlights the befuddling experience of being an urban mother

A new mother recounts the invasion of her body, the birth of the stranger and how there seems to be no respect for her breasts anymore

The burden of traditional expectations. Unscrupulous doctors. New-age medical technology. This is not Dan Brown, this is real India

Mothers think they are the centre of their children’s universe. Alas, they find they are not

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