'This is the first audience where so many mom said - i get it!'

Q&A


with Amy Chua, John M Duff professor of law at Yale University - and top ranking academic and legal theorist. She is also the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother; a treatise on parenting that emphasizes tight control on children's lives, diverse kinds of discipline and restrictions (including no boyfriends or sleepovers for Chua's teenage daughters - who had to practice the piano even on holiday) and pushing one's children hard to excel.

She speaks about shocked responses, what parenting means to her 0 and how Indian mothers 'get it' right away.

Interview - Q&A

-The Times of India, February 1, 2012

Over The Top

Is Norway the ultimate nanny state?

Over The Top

-The Times of India, January 27, 2012

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya may now breathe a sigh of relief as the their children will be safely brought back to India, and in custody of their uncle. Much of the arguments that the Norwegian authorities presented were based on cultural differences in parenting as opposed to their claim of parental neglect. While it remains true that ill-treatment of children needs to be condemned, an accommodation of cultural differences is a necessity.