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From Brides to Burdens: The Hidden Struggles of Indian Women2024-12-17
A Conversation We Can't Ignore
In India, marriage is often celebrated as a sacred bond, a joyous union of two families. Yet, for countless women, this transition can signal the onset of a harrowing journey marked by isolation, helplessness, and a profound loss of identity. After marriage, many women find themselves caught in a web of expectations, viewed as outsiders in …
Unveiling the Illusion: Rethinking Marriage and Its Hidden Inequalities2024-12-15
Let us challenge the status quo
I often find myself asking: Why does marriage feel like a gilded cage? Why do so many of us enter this system only to discover that it can carry on underlying inequalities and create an illusion of happiness? It's time to peel back some layers of tradition and expectation around marriage, revealing the often-unspoken truths that lie beneath. …
Exeami have search now!2024-01-08
It's easier than you think
Background I always felt having a search in any website is useful, and I wanted to have one in mine. Even though I know how to exactly navigate to the content I want in my website, I sometimes feel lazy and wish I had a quick way to ask and get what I want. The reasons why I want search are maybe obvious, but for some reason I had a fee…
Instagram for kids2023-09-15
Reasons why it might not be a good idea.
This is a draft post — please adjust your expectations accordingly. If you have an Instagram account for your babies or plan to have one, I want you to think twice before doing it. Most of us are immature and innocent and follow the trend without being fully aware that some things we share on the internet might be bad for us and our love…
Getting to know IndieWeb2023-09-07
What is IndieWeb and why do you need to know about it?
Once I was reading about how Amazon gave a platform for many small businesses to sell products online and how it helped them. You might even have heard that, but think about it, whenever we buy something from a small business on Amazon, we often relate it as we bought it from Amazon and never really remember the seller or the creator. This …
Why should I care about data privacy?2020-07-21
Six reasons why.
Recently when I was speaking about data privacy to a friend, he said "How do I get affected if my data is collected, in a way I am getting personal suggestions, so it seems to be good, as I have nothing to hide?" We usually listen to this in various forms, from many people around us, so I want to bring this up to you. The way we think …
Homomorphic Encryption2020-04-20
Trying figure out what it is.
Homomorphic Encryption is an encryption technique where we can perform computations on encrypted data and get the result which will be encrypted and can be decrypted only by the owner with the secret key. Why would anyone need Homomorphic Encryption? Consider the scenario where you want some computation to be performed on some metadata …
Why should I switch to Signal?2020-02-28
A privacy respecting secure messenger.
Signal is a messaging app by Open Whisperer Systems, just like WhatsApp or iMessage or Facebook Messenger, but one that's geared towards privacy and security. It's encrypted, simple, and free. Signal Vs WhatsApp They both use the same underlying encryption "the Signal Protocol" but drastically differ in terms of underlying…