Like a lot of young girls, I started having issues with the way my body looks from my early teens itself. It has been an ongoing saga for the last two decades – wherein there have been periods of triumph and times of complete loss. Once I crossed the first trimester (with all its associated…
Category: Health
My Struggles with Infertility
“The urine pregnancy test is negative”, “My periods started”, “I’m sorry you are not pregnant this time” – dreaded situations that I was in nearly 40 times and all because I have issues with fertility. This is my experience with the struggles of conceiving and so similar to what thousands of women go through across…
Awash in sensations
Exactly 10 years ago to the date, i.e. 12th November 2010, I was introduced to the world of autism. As a student of psychology, I had briefly heard the term autism while studying human development but had not really understood it. A friend of my father’s – Ms. Jayashree Ramesh – is the Director of…
Zero-waste covid management
Generating almost no waste while home quarantining with covid-19, and staying absolutely safe As a family we have been executing various eco-friendly practices for the last decade, the main one being producing as little waste as possible by using the techniques of reduce, reuse and recycle. Our lifestyle choices will be explained in more detail…
My Covid-19 Chronicles
I live in what is becoming a rare situation, wherein my parents and in-laws live in the same city and I spend half my week with my parents and half the week with my in-laws. On both sides, we live in joint families. The 3rd of September 2020 dawned with beautiful Bangalore weather. I…
Food Forethought 