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Dard-e-dil is all very well in your 20s and 30s. By your 40s, you graduate to dard-e-kamar.

This holds true for India as well where you got a minimum 5 day in-hospital stay after natural childbirth, 7 if you had a C-sec. That rest is essential and our current model is terribly stressful for new mothers.

‘Billed as Jane Austen meets Bollywood, Vedashree Khambete - Sharma’s book is perfect to curl up with on cold winter nights’ 💫 Review in HELLO! Vedashree Khambete-Sharma

Noam Chomsky's name makes him sound like someone who loves to eat and honestly, I hope he does.

The BeeGees: Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man... Me: Yeah, singing at a REAHLLY high pitch for a woman's man though

There's another wedding at the hall down the road and rhe playlist today is all Sooraj Barjatya all the time and I cannot, I just... at this volume I CAN NOT.

My daughter tends to put too much chaat masala on her food and today I took the box away from her sayi g she is misusing her chaat privileges. Then I laughed like a crazy person. So yeah, motherhood's going great.

Anyone else hear Gandalf in their head right now?

Thank you @SuffolkLibrary for this great interview with Vedashree Khambete-Sharma suffolklibraries.co.uk/meet-the-autho… #WhatWillPeopleThink 🌸

Now this is lovely! A funny, heartwarming retelling of Pride and Prejudice based in 1970's Mumbai where Ila Bendre is not convinced marriage is for her despite what her mother may think! The footnotes are a particurlar joy, funny and insightful. #readsof2025 Vedashree Khambete-Sharma

The law is the law. Agreed. But murder is murder. Marital rape is legal in India. Sure. But manslaughter isn't. You could've got him for that. You SHOULD have got him for that at least.

Thinking today of how Aishwarya Rai was mercilessly trolled for not losing her baby weight soon enough. She appeared at Cannes, in ads, in public, unashamed of her post-pregnancy body, and the media crucified her for it. Because god forbid new moms have healthy role models.

Hold up. So... opposable thumbs are a sign of evolution, right? Koalas have two. ON EACH HAND. AND they sleep like 20 hours a day. I don't think we're the most evolved species, guys. I think it's the Aussie teddybears.

My name is Aamir Aziz. I am a poet. My poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega has been used without my knowledge, consent, credit, or compensation by the internationally celebrated artist Anita Dube.

Reposting in case you're 20 and clueless about money matters

"I asked Char GPT..." Well, *I* asked Jane Austen and SHE said the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK? by Vedashree Khambete-Sharma is out now in paperback with Corvus! Gorgeous … like being in Pride and Prejudice, if Jane Austen had lived in 70s Mumbai" - Harriet Evans "So much fun!" - Katie Fforde atlantic-books.co.uk/book/what-will…