Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
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 conversation about body positivity never gets old. No, let me rephrase. We must now allow it to ever get old. At its heart, body positivity is a movement which seeks to empower all bodies and advocates for the acceptance of all bodies irrespective of shape, ability, size, gender, [...]
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 [...]
Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor Let me start with one of my favorite relationship quotes ever. My Mum read it at our wedding and now, after 15 years of marriage, I treasure its meaning more than ever: Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no! it [...]
Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor Happy new year! How has the year started for you? I'm guessing, like most people I know or work with, you're tired of this pandemic, tired of not knowing what's going to happen, tired of the rules changing all the time, tired of not being able to see who [...]