Lali
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Lali
@ReaderLals
Love reading, watching podcasts , interviews, documentaries ,humanity. Review books. Retweets and likes are not always endorsements.
Katılım Ağustos 2009
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20 years to Fanaa.. my daughter was 2 and a half years old and I was ——— 😜 but what I remember most was Poland in all its glory.. -27 degrees Celsius, beautiful forests and sleds 🛷 used on sidewalks .. ! And off course the fact that I wore a thin salwar kameez while most everyone else was dressed in goose down 🧐.. what a blast from the past!



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@BackInBlack_DG @suchitkamat Absolutely! Love this lady with her crazy makeovers and unfiltered mouth.:)
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@rvindnl @drshamamohd @narendramodi Indian candies, mints, biscuits, convenient foods, need to be stocked in all Indians airports, railway stations, wherever travellers congregate.
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@drshamamohd @narendramodi So one airport shop not stocking your preferred Indian mint brand suddenly means “Atmanirbhar Bharat failed”? That’s the level of analysis now?
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I am in Terminal 2 looking for mints or gums but couldnt find a single Indian made ones- All are imported ! I can understand if we have both but to have only imported & not Indian ones is shocking!
Where is atmanirbhar bharat @narendramodi ? You are a bol bachchan & nothing else
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@mythicmuseqt @jasuja Exactly. And overweight, obesity does not always respond to positive sincere attempts at weight loss.
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People forget that not every woman, especially after decades in the spotlight, wants to spend her life negotiating with public approval. At some point, choosing peace over performance is also a choice.
What’s interesting is how people say “her body, her choice” until a famous woman actually chooses not to optimize herself for public consumption anymore.
Maybe the real shock to people isn’t weight gain. It’s seeing someone once treated as a global beauty symbol stop behaving like beauty is her primary responsibility.
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For all the debate over Aishwarya Rai “choosing” not to lose weight when she easily could, let’s be honest, Ozempic and every possible resource are available to her.
And yes, I do sometimes wonder why she doesn’t, especially because she has something most people don’t: time and freedom. A lot of people who struggle with weight are also struggling with survival, stress, jobs, kids, exhaustion.
But maybe that’s exactly the point.
Some people simply don’t want to make weight loss the center of their life, even if they can. And maybe after decades of being viewed through beauty alone, she just doesn’t feel the need to perform for public expectations anymore.
Sunil Rao@memer_mitron
Doesn’t Aishwarya Rai do yoga or exercise to stay slim like Shilpa Shetty?
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Imagine how deeply brainwashed people of this country have become to defend fuel price hikes like it’s some patriotic act and they’re modern bhagat singh or smth. In any functioning democracy, repeated fuel hikes would trigger outrage because people understand one basic thing: governments heavily control fuel taxation. Petrol &diesel prices in India are not “pure market prices.” A massive chunk is taxes. The Centre and states both earn huge revenue from it.
When crude oil prices crashed globally a few years ago, did Indians get proportional relief at the pump? NO. But the oil companies & governments quietly enjoyed record margins while citizens kept paying inflated prices. The excuse was always “global uncertainty,” “recovery,” “war,” “inflation,” or some new modimade keyword. But somehow profits kept rising.
And the funniest part is that the very same middle class taxpayers getting squeezed will jump online to defend it with: “but petrol is still more expensive in europe & america” 🤡🤡🤡🤡
But that clown andhbhakth doesn’t know that european & western countries have higher wages, stronger public transport, social security, healthcare, unemployment benefits, and far better urban infrastructure. Indians are paying near developed world fuel prices with under developing world salaries and third world infrastructure. A delivery worker earning ₹15-20k a month paying ₹109+ per litre is not the same as someone in Germany earning thousands of euros monthly.
This clown on my tl really compared fuel inflation to makeup shopping & said “men should earn more.” But who’s gonna tell this aunty that fuel prices don’t just affect vehicle owners. They affect EVERYTHING including vegetables, milk, groceries, cab fares, flights, logistics, farming costs, construction, electricity & much more
Every ₹1 hike quietly increases inflation across the economy. The poor and middle class absorb the damage while corporations pass costs to consumers.
And instead of questioning policy, some people behave like unpaid PR teams for politicians and oil companies. They’ll fight random strangers online, will call them anti national before demanding accountability from the people actually collecting taxes. That’s the real modern tragedy of this nation, citizens have slowly been successfully trained to celebrate suffering as “national interest.”
The government can reduce excise duty. States can reduce VAT. Oil companies can reduce margins. All of this is POSSIBLE. But why would they, when millions of emotionally manipulated brainwashed voters will defend every hike using nationalism, pakistan comparisons, religious angle or “at least roads are better now” arguments?
A democracy becomes hell toxic & dangerous when citizens stop questioning power and start worshipping it. At that point, voters become consumers of propaganda, not participants in governance 🙏🏻
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For a country so crippling with heat and no safe water for billions we want to build this abomination. Please stop for the love of god
🚨Indian Gems@IndianGems_
🇮🇳 India’s Data Centers to Consume 358 Billion Liters of Water Just for Cooling by 2030.
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@ManjeshKumarPa ऐसी क्या जल्दी थी l इतना रिस्क लेने की l एक झटके में नीचे गिरेंगी और कोई पानी देने वाला भी नहीं मिलेगा l समय से 10 मिनट पहले पहुंचे होते तो यह स्थिति न होती l
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Stop promoting ethanol blended fuel @nitin_gadkari
Drinking water is far more important.
The Times Of India@timesofindia
#Residents of #Dakshinpuri's Block 10 have endured a month without running #water, forcing #women to seek permission for baths at their #workplaces. For approximately 5,000 people, daily life now involves long queues for water, with many hauling buckets up multiple floors amidst a severe #heatwave. Know more 🔗 toi.in/t7vgbZ1
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After hearing a lot of buzz on social media and in the newspapers, I went to Lodhi Garden this morning. As soon as I reached there, the bird flew away, and all the birdwatchers left. How heartbreaking it was!
Following a birder's advice, I set up my camera on a tripod and waited alone. A few people kept coming and going, asking, "Did you see it?" 🙂
Finally an about hour-long wait wasn't disappointing.
Video - Hridayesh Joshi
Oriental Pied Hornbill , Lodi Garden
If you want to know detail there in link on one TOI story in the comment ... @anuradhamathur @indian_pitta #Birdwatching
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The recent body shaming of Aishwarya Rai by someone who should have known a lot better...or a little before that of Patralekha and Swara Bhaskar of not reverting to their pre pregnancy bodies immediately or ever, remind me of The impossible 'beauty' standards we set for women, and the harm it does.
Also, the media makes it seem that a normal women's body (which is what Aishwarya has now) is somehow unacceptable and the only women appearing in public should look like 15 year olds or maybe 20 year olds.
No man even in public life is held to those standards. Look at the TV anchors, you will find men not just with grey or balding heads but totally unkempt hair and that is somehow acceptable. The women have to look picture perfect.
It also reminded me of a post a while ago by a woman CEO of some health related outfit & the theme of her song was that the body positivity movement is encouraging obesity which leads to a lot of diseases.
As the saying goes unless you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, you do not know where the shoe pinches.
If you've never been fat shamed in your life you will never understand where the body positivity movement comes from. Every time I see a woman, esp a young woman, making content on this theme I send good wishes because I personally know how hard that road is.
It means years of hiding behind clothes, behind people in pictures, of trying to disappear.
First, most people, esp women, don't choose to be fat. Second just by looking at someone who is fat as per your standards does not mean that they are not trying or do not have healthy habits. Third, by encouraging fat shaming you actually keep overweight people away from exercise because they feel judged in a swimsuit/gym clothes.
And the whole narrative of being fat gets so ingrained in your head that you still feel fat even after you have lost weight. I look at this pic of mine when I was about 20 and do not see a fat girl but still I went into stores thinking, "Will they have my size?"
I have seen some older body positivity influencers who posted before and after pictures; not with a change in weight but a change in confidence and you see a whole different woman.
And the pressure is never the same way on potbellied men!
This is besides the fact that weight doesn't equal fitness. I will give a personal example. I have lost a considerable bit of weight in the last couple of years, am fitting into clothes that are 15 yrs old.
People ask me, "What are you doing?" and my answer is, "If anything, I've become less strict about my fitness"
For years I had no rotis or rice except once a week and walked 10000 steps a day. Worked out in the Gym so much that I could lift more weight than most young men in their 20s. My muscle mass was higher than even the high end of the normal range for my age, my blood parameters were great but the fat remained stubborn.
In my case it was getting rid of the major stressor in my life that worked
If the Cortisol remains high, your body doesn't let go of weight. In terms of spirituality & healing, if you don't feel safe, the body doesn't let go of weight.
I wasn't a chubby kid but started gaining weight at age 6 after an illness - probably the old generation medicines caused an imbalance.
Fat shaming by random people(never my family) was the only traumatic part of my otherwise idyllic childhood.
So do motivate people to take up healthy habits. Tell them not to have samosa and pizza everyday, to give up a sedentary lifestyle. But blaming the body positivity movement is an absolute no no... As is making normal aging or other normal changes a taboo for women.
And remember that the beauty standards in the world have been set basically by the men in the Epstein files and that is why the aversion to normal women's bodies.

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Aishwarya Rai is an admirable woman. She’s someone who has carried her many accomplishments with the same dignity as she has handled the relentless relationship rumours that seem to follow her.
But the one thing she is not is a woman comfortable in her own skin. If she were, she would have chosen wrinkles over the fillers she has on her face.
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@pvsubramanyam Rupee movement is far more complex than just foreign brands.
Oil imports, trade deficit, global capital flows, inflation and interest rates play a much bigger role overall.
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Why is the Rupee going down? Just because we use foreign brands FOR everything. Colgate, Samsung, Liril, Lux, Whisper, Gillette, Honda, Toyota, Head&Shoulders, Jockey, Marks&Spencer, Amazon, Flipkart, Hdfc (80% foreign owned), Templeton, Fidelity, Prudential, McDonalds, JP Morgan, AiG,............we use all brands belonging to someone else.
We pay royalty, and dividend to these companies.
$ will soon be 200, thanks to our efforts.
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