Twenty-four-year-old Sonia Mackwani is the founder of an NGO called Touching Lives. She is also a clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist, integrated healer, writer and researcher in metaphysics and Ancient Indian Sciences and a counselling psychologist with an NGO working with sex-workers and their children.

Every one of us has been subjected to some form of commandment to NOT break out beyond where you came from, to not leave your “station” in order to be truly fabulous. Husband-and-wife psychology team, Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD, offer a few tips to help support you in your willingness, your commitment to be Free To Be Fabulous. 

Can you speak up when you have a point to make? Or would you rather avoid exchanging words at any cost? Being assertive is a skill that every woman should possess at her work or in her home. And it’s never too late to learn this essential skill writes SAVIA RAJAGOPAL.

Sohini Chakraborty is a dance therapist who works with minor prostitutes rescued from brothels. Pallavi Bhattacharya reports on Sanved, Sohini's organisation, which believes the term "sex worker" is derogatory and inappropriate, as prostitutes are abused and receive no sick leave.

Indian mothers are renowned for the loving kindness. In fact, the mother figure is deified and worshipped as Ma Durga. So why does the same mother often act hostile to her daughter-in-law? Psychologist, Chrisann Almeida, in an interview with Pallavi Bhattacharya, explores the aspects that may give rise to an unhealthy saas-bahu relationship.

Asian countries have always shown a soft corner for the male child – he would be the heir, he would carry the family name forward and he would most certainly take care of his parents in old age. While forceful abortion started in ancient civilizations, determining the sex of the child and aborting it is a fairly recent addition to female foeticide. Khushboo Aulakh discusses the discrimination of Indian society towards the girl child.

The promise of a secure, luxurious life lures many women and their families to opt for marriage to an NRI groom, making them vulnerable to exploitation and abandonment. Can corrective reforms put an end to the evil practice of fraudulent NRI marriages, asks Leena Kundnani?

Leucoderma and vitiligo are no longer a reason to panic. New treatments in the form of therapeutic skin-coloured tattoos, can be used to camouflage patches caused by loss of skin pigment, reports Pallavi Bhattacharya.

Even today girls with leucoderma are discriminated against in the marriage market. Pallavi Bhattacharya interviewed woman achiever, Dr. Manjula Jagatramka, who, despite being a leucoderma sufferer, went on to do her Ph.D in Textiles and Clothing, and works with the underprivileged in Mumbai conducting training programmes in income generation skills like embroidery and training.

The security we women so desperately seek in our relationships with men can only be found one way: by building confidence within ourselves. Dating Coach, Paige Parker, shows you how to replace feelings of clinginess, neediness and insecurity with self-reliance, confidence, and positivity.

It's possible that most of us have never known true intimacy from the moment we came into the world. We've been labeled, taught, cajoled and prodded, been threatened by all forms of authority, told what's true and what isn't, and disrespected for everything from our feelings to our thoughts. Rori Gwynne shows you how to communicate your deepest feelings even when we're afraid of the consequences.

Health conscious? Want to avoid using oil in your cooking? Golden Reejsinghani gives you a collection of delicious recipes that are completely oil, ghee and butter free. Go ahead and enjoy them without the guilt.