Main Aur Meri EMI: Ek Choti Si Love Story
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Main Aur Meri EMI: Ek Choti Si Love Story

As a twenty-something educated adult with a good track record of jobs and salary accounts, banks love me and I have come to make the most of that. I chose to live the best version of my life in EMIs – a lifestyle that has 14 per cent interest, but that’s ok.
Tere Do Takeyan Di Naukri: Why You Need to Stop Chasing Your Dream Job
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Tere Do Takeyan Di Naukri: Why You Need to Stop Chasing Your Dream Job

A generation of millennials like me, has grown up on the belief that if we “do what we love, we’ll never have to work a day in our lives”. But here’s the thing we forget while we’re busy chasing the job that’s supposed to shit rainbows and unicorns: The bills aren’t going to pay themselves. It’s time we stopped romanticising work.
How I Have Shamefully Benefitted from Patriarchy
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How I Have Shamefully Benefitted from Patriarchy

Patriarchy benefits me in the tiny ways that it can benefit only upper-class, upper-caste Hindu women in India. I hate that most workplaces won’t treat me as equal, but I have to admit that it’s a relief to have the freedom to fail professionally, or even choose to have a career at all.
Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?
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Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?

Why do so many women settle for lowball salary offers, far under the value that our experience merits? For all our idealism and outspoken feminism, when it is time to bat for ourselves in the most elementary of ways, why do we consistently fail ourselves?
Dear Bosses, Stop Telling Your Employees to Be a Big Happy Family at Work
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Dear Bosses, Stop Telling Your Employees to Be a Big Happy Family at Work

The office is just that – a place where you show up to deliver the work you agreed to when you signed the dotted line, and leave the minute you meet your deadlines. With happiness and without guilt. Why are bosses then, so obsessed with conjuring up a family within the workplace? I have one slightly neurotic, dysfunctional family at home, I don’t need another one at work, thank you very much.