Photo by Ava W. Burton on Unsplash I was born into this world, a financially wealthy Indian girl who wanted to make it big… (Pause. What I was born with isn’t really what this article is about, it’s about the traits and advantages I was given. I’m just setting the scene.) I was brought up by a line of financially…
Photo by Ronan Furuta on Unsplash “Climate change is not the problem, climate change is the most horrible symptom of an ecosystem that has been built for a few to extract precious value of this planet and our people.” – Disaster recovery lawyer Colette Pichon You may have noticed that in the last decade, alot more people have woken up…
Photo by Joeyy Lee on Unsplash I don’t know about you, but after a recent difficult break up, I am sometimes very demotivated to head back out into the dating world. Hear me out. I’ll attempt to tell you why. Coupling up always seems great in the beginning! But what shifts? What happens when the relationship actually starts? One of…
Photo by Dan Smedley on Unsplash Should you leave a tip? The service charge was introduced in India in 2017, before which the tipper was given complete freedom to decide the value of the tip. This was based on the server, the ambience, the food and the overall experience. It also sometimes depended on whether the customer was in the…
Photo by Laura Chouette on Unsplash “Insecurities when it comes to the way we look at ourselves existed before social media. Instagram especially, is a dangerous trigger for eating disorders and has made our body image issues much more complex.” – Pooja Deshpande, clinical psychiatrist who specialises in trauma and eating disorders The internet became a social platform when I…
Sometimes we tend to let our lives live us, instead of the other way around, don’t you think? And while we are so consumed and wildly fascinated with the complicated, in depth affairs of our day-to-day, we forget the basics. You and I and alot of us have been guilty of this…we forget to drink water, a little too often.…
Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash Wait a minute, I need to hydrate before this one. I am currently in that funky gray area shortly after a heartbreak. Confusing and conflicting feelings of regret, guilt, anger, fear and even relief filled my body when years of my partnership finally reached its due date. I knew it was the right move…
Pictured are Lorellie Barboza and Dhruv Warrior with their baby Annora A matriarch, in this context, is the female head of the family, usually through marriage, though in the predominant patriarchal society, that exists in India as being a ‘good mother’–the most important, and sometimes the only goal and role she has. Most of us look at our moms and…
Photo by Sam Burriss on Unsplash Does what you look like match what you think you look like? Technically, your appearance is a very concrete and objective definition of what you look like, while your body image is more about how you feel about your body. People with negative body image tend to have a distorted or skewed idea of…
Photo by Pelayo Arbués on Unsplash Yes, we’re all weird. But weird is good and weird can be …well…sexy. Honestly, we were trying to come up with a perfectly witty yet sensual introduction for this piece but after a considerable amount of time, we’ve decided to let you just read what a lot of you had to say. Here’s a…
