How often do you hear of women speaking about their lives, no holds barred? Delving into their achievements, and their mistakes, without regrets and with laughter. Filmmaker and Sunday mid-day columnist Paromita Vohra points out that we simply don’t get to witness women as full people in popular representations; there are only stereotypes. “How does the media portray women? They use a word like ‘badass’. It’s these meaningless terms which are categorising women,” she asserts, adding, “Earlier, you had the fair, convent-educated, demure type, the Madonnas, the vamps, or the heroines. Now, there are these terms claiming to release women from one box, only to put them in another.” 

There’s only one way out of that — to share hundreds of stories of women.  And an upcoming phy-gital (online and in-person) meet-up,  An Evening of No Regrets: Why We Need Grown-Ass Women To Tell Their Life Stories, attempts to start that conversation. In attendance you’ll find veteran theatre personality Dolly Thakore, cultural critic, writer and translator Shanta Gokhale, and poet, novelist, translator and journalist Jerry Pinto, in a tête-à-tête with Vohra.