Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
In a world, where you can be anything, be kind. Isn’t that what the message below reads? Be kind. My Swiss Story, Field Notes from #amuminprogress Vol 2, Pic Credit: Unsplash Simple. So simple, so effective that it is a powerful social media hashtag. The phrase ‘Be Kind’ is so ubiquitous that sometimes it cancels [...]
Today on the blog we have Viviane Hoeger, a qualified Pelvic Floor Recovery Specialist, Personal Trainer, and Nutrition Coach who brings to the forefront a very important question - "Can we please stop telling mothers they need to get their bodies back?" Anyone who’s attended one of my immediate postnatal fitness classes knows that I [...]
Till now, throughout the Body Positivity Project, we have discussed the various stigmas surrounding the "ideal body", battle of mind and body, need for acceptance, and some amazing advice given from personal experience on taking the path towards self by women with diverse backgrounds. Having done that, how can we forget the root of it [...]
By Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor Dear Young Person, I’m 35. Soon to be 36. At 15 - when I was just keen on surviving - I couldn’t even see 35. It seemed like a silly number - not real, occupied by those who were well past it. Ah, the arrogance of youth, eh? [...]
Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor The author, aged 9 Hey you, I’ve thought of you often over the years, sitting, perched on the cusp of adulthood. I’ve marveled at your naivety, I’ve wanted to scold you into practicality and pragmatism. But you are a dreamer, not a doer. And here’s the strange, almost incomprehensible [...]