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To My Teens - My Veeres!

Teens (girls) are my favorite and why not!  Also, because I cannot go back to mine, I figure out ways to find my teens in yours and you have been candid enough to include me in your clad! How I wish I had the exposure you have in today's time, hence this piece of writing only for you my Veeres.  So, I watched the most hyped movie of this year 'Veere Di Wedding' and being the social media fanatic, I was seriously impressed by the efforts put by girls along with the entire team in bringing out the new story content every week paired with pictures and buzzing them all along!  So just like many of you, I watched the first day first show and blimey!!! I had my neurons fired up, while my fellow audience lived through extreme emotions of love and hatred towards the movie, I went back to the start of the movie where the personality of four Delhi girls ( in their 16's or 18's) is exposed!  L-R Suman Iyenger, Pinnu Goel, Dimple Khanna, Yours Truly...

Do You Celebrate Being You?

For once, I am glad to admit that I am amongst the millions who spend endless hours looking up “How to Lose Weight”, “Cause of Obesity” so on and so forth on the internet. I am the kind of person that likes to try out everything right from the GYM to Cycling to Running to all kinds of Power Yoga and Hot Yoga in a bid to control my increasing weight. But more often than not I end up in losing more of my enthusiasm than my weight in the bargain as it is really a hard process. Image Source: Thinglink.com It dawned to me once during one such browsing sessions that while on one hand India is considered a leading destination for medical tourism, it is the third country worldwide that leads in obesity which is paradoxical. I am not writing this piece to expand on the medical complexities of obesity but rather talk about my own experiences and conversation with someone who is also now an important part of my life. However before I proceed further, let me just say that I do com...