What your parents should actually tell you before you get

If you are a PDSM (you know, Post-divorce single mother), just like me and 13 million other living and breathing humans in India alone, then just like me, you too have gone into stages of a maddening afterthought, sleepless nights, wrecked nights, and hangovers in the lull that you findREAD MORE

What they don’t tell you about Single Parenting

Since I wasn’t done with the things no one tells you about Single Parenting, I’ve compiled another list of a few more tacit things that are the best kept secrets of Single Parenting Dating becomes a real chore and sometimes a bore Dating for a Single Parent is such aREAD MORE

Matters of a Mutual Fund

So, here you are with your cup of coffee skimming through articles on The Village Banter. You may even have a potli bag next to you in which you have saved every single penny that will grow along with your little ones? Well, well, instead of keeping the money thatREAD MORE

Valentine’s day Affirmations for Single Parents

Dear Single Parents, Print this out and carry it in your wallet if you have to, but don’t you ever forget that you are worthy of wanting love and being loved by anyone, and not just your kids. And if no one else has told you yet, and for whateverREAD MORE

The learned shame of being Single

Why is prioritising ourselves, recognising our needs and fulfilling them on our own, always associated with such immense sense of guilt, shame and fear? Whether it is winning something in school, becoming a career-driven person, earning a good livelihood for the family, or enjoying sexual pleasures, all seem to beREAD MORE