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USO stories are first-hand reports from the frontline. These are everyday stories of love, laundry, work, life, and the world.
Women – Live and Work guilt free
As working people we all suffer from some guilt when we stay away from children, it is more pronounced in us because as women we are the nurturers! As we work hard to break the glass...
Female Hormones – Disarming a woman’s ambition
Hormones and ambition in a woman are never in synch. Just when the woman gets to know herself the hormones take a U Turn, they lose the fire and are declared clinically suppressed. All through...
In the stillness of the afternoon sun
In the stillness of the afternoon sun, beside a narrow spring and amidst the green overbearing trees sat a very old man with eyes closed sitting very still. The stories of his past showed as...
DIY Pregnancy in London
Once upon a time far away from home, a certain woman gave birth to a beautiful baby and there started her journey of self discovery. While I reflect on my experience, I can find dollops of humour...
Sleeping next to a legend!
I do not trust my luck when am racing against time to get to the boarding gate seconds before they are going to close, in those never ending moments, all I trust is the strength in my feet and the...
Lifestyle
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Where does the strength come from? The answer is not simple it never was, while generally men continue to simmer in...
Body shaming and stigmatizing go well beyond hurtful, it’s an unpardonable offence in my court of law.
Last morning, we were walking in the park and we met my daughter’s friend Naomi (name changed) and her parents. Amidst all the social banter, inevitably parents start talking about their children, I...
Just ‘Apolitical’….
Most Indian teenagers are busy communicating on trivia through their handheld devices and roaming the corridors of a fancy mall in their free time, and one day some of them will take over the...
Effervescent Indian in London: (The Statesman – 22nd April)
Living in London is like running an endless marathon and a Londoner just another busybody in the massive ant brigade. Life sprints ahead even before one realizes life. In some sense the life is...



