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Let’s Love Ourself Challenge

November 29, 2017

For the past few days, I’ve been dealing with some severe body image issues. Most of my friends are really lean and do not have trouble with being overweight. Standing beside them makes me hate my body and myself. Everyone has convinced me that I need time to recuperate and my body is still healing …

The Sine Wave

November 27, 2017

Today I want to discuss a lighter topic – the effects of romcoms on women. Watching romcoms is like a sine wave. You get the highest crest while watching them and then the lowest trough once you are done. In fact, blood flows through arteries, very much like a sine wave, where the amplitude is the …

Sev Bhaji

November 27, 2017

This past week has been hectic and really enjoyable. I had a surprise party (for my birthday) at my friends place complete with a cake and my favorite food that she makes. It was also Thanksgiving weekend. So we did tons of shopping for Arlo stocking up on his clothes for the next few months …

Every Woman is a Warrior

November 20, 2017

So today, I’m going to talk about why women everywhere are warriors. Before I start off, I read this beautiful saying, “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, …

Poori

November 20, 2017

For me making Poori is much easier than making chapati. Probably because it’s tastier. Poori was my favorite food when I was a kid but really started not to like it much as I grew older. By the time I was getting married I started to dislike most fried foods. I would rarely eat few …

Poori Koora (Subji for Poori)

November 20, 2017

I haven’t posted about food in a long time. That’s because first Arlo was sick and then I was sick. We haven’t cooked much in a while and have been surviving on scarps and soups from Costco and Panera. My friends have been kind enough to leave me and my family some food. My sister …

Importance of Raising Your Kids to be Feminists

November 16, 2017

I think of myself as a Feminist. I try to impose the same in the house. That there’s no difference between a guy and a girl except the biological one. I have fought hard against my parents to be one. I have always been a tomboy. I rebelled against my parents to be what I …

Thank You Kind Stranger

November 13, 2017

This is the time of the year when the days become shorter and nights become longer, the time of winter solstice. Longer nights imply more thinking time at night if you are like me. This is the time of the year when resolutions are in the making. In just a few more weeks, you will …

What not to say to your Friends living abroad

November 6, 2017

So I’ve been living in the States for quite a while now (almost five years) and I keep getting these comments like – “Wow, your life is set”, “Wow, you are living in a developed country”, “Wow you are bloody rich” and least but not the last, “Wow can you get me an iPhone?” To …

Love Letter to my Mom

October 31, 2017

Amma, I still remember when I was in 3rd class I remember telling my teacher that I hate you and love only Nanna. I’m so sorry for that. I don’t know why I said that at that time. I was so small and all my life (till before my marriage) Nanna has been my hero. …