Tushar Mangl Media

You know what is exhausting before you even open Harnidh Kaur’s The Girls Are Not Fine ? The performance. The endless performance. The one where everyone insists they are okay because modern life rewards people who can smile through emotional collapse. Women especially. Women at work. Women in marriages. Women in WhatsApp groups. Women in offices where burnout is mistaken for ambition. Women online where every opinion now arrives sharpened like a weapon. The good folks at Penguin India sent across a copy of this book which can be said to be an essential reading in today’s times. Gender wise, we are a deeply polarised society today. It helps when an author picks up the pen and does something about it. Because somewhere between social media feminism, collapsing marriages, hustle culture, online outrage, therapy vocabulary, legal anxieties, and loneliness disguised as productivity, modern India has become a country where everybody appears furious and nobody appears rested. That atmosphere...