by Team DD | Oct 22, 2024 | podcast
“I am a verb; I am a work in progress.” — Amy Schmidt This one quote embodies Chanaya’s journey as a founder which has been anything but predictable. While the rest of the world around her talked about “results”, Chanaya chose to focus on the journey...
by Team DD | Jun 26, 2024 | DD Blog, Featured Pieces
This is feature piece by Akankshya. For the DD blog. What becomes of a woman when she stops looking at romantic partnerships as the ultimate trophy or motive for being alive? I set up a long Google form to find answers to this question. It didn’t come to me out of...
by Team DD | Jun 21, 2024 | Featured Pieces, Featured Pieces
This is a feature piece by Lungmying. For the DD Blog. Coming from the serene hill station of Sikkim, a small kingdom in the foothills of the Himalayas, I was raised in the main town of Gangtok where I had many experiences as a girl child. This isn’t just my...
by Team DD | May 29, 2024 | DD Blog
Stage 1: Conversations that plant the seed There is a scene somewhere close to the interval, where Yashodha asks her mother-in-law, “Kya aap aur main saheli ho sakte hain?”. She is prompted to think about this for the first time after seeing the...
by Team DD | Sep 11, 2023 | DD Blog
To shatter the glass ceiling we often talk about, we need to first identify it. When we attempted to do that at Decoding Draupadi, we observed that one of the reasons women find it tough to progress is the lack of choice. For a moment, if we were to acknowledge some...