Pooja

A note for all women : Jhadu-pocha-aren’t enough exercise. Go to the gym. Standing & cooking don't count as activity. Go out in the sun and breathe fresh air. Bartan cleaning won’t tone your biceps. Dishwasher and dumbbells will. Sweeping and bending won’t build your abs. Get a domestic help and train your core. You don’t need a squat PR while washing clothes. Washing machine and barbell squats will do. Enough of cooking and feeding those mouths who troll you on the internet. Build those shoulders and abs; and intimidate these low-T mfers.

‘BOOTS’ has been canceled after one season on Netflix.

Everything we have ever assumed about the upside down has been dead wrong. Volume 2 of the final season of Stranger Things arrives Dec. 25th at 5pm PT.

kind of insane to me that i'm not hearing people call this show woke considering the main character is a gay woman

Did you know that only 1-3% of women can bench press their own body weight? As a kid in the 90s, I read a mail-in question on the back of a cereal box. The question was “if the Power Rangers are so strong, how much can they bench press?” The official answer was that each Power Ranger could bench press his or her own body weight. I can bench 1.3x my body weight. I am stronger than a Power Ranger.

Mostly Uttarakhandi Pahadi people use tu for their mothers, and it sounds so pure and affectionate. It’s never the loud or disrespectful kind, it’s warm and close. Aap, on the other hand, is an Urdu word that has now become common among us Hindi speakers as a respectful way to address elders. But honestly, nothing beats the feeling when we says, "मा, तू काख छै?”

When I moved to India, I had no idea about the notion of “value for time,” or even the concept of services as such. Last year, I discovered something completely new to me: Movers and Packers. Back in Denmark or France, moving out of an apartment was a carefully planned month-long operation. Weeks before the move, I’d sit on the floor wrapping every single object in bubble wrap, praying nothing would break. A few days before, it was time to rent a truck and call friends or family to help carry furniture, sometimes up and down seven floors with no elevator (yes, that actually happened in my apartment in France). But last year, when I moved from Ahmedabad to Delhi for a couple of months, Prachi simply said, “Let’s call movers and packers.” A few days before the move, I started dismantling the furniture, panicking that we’d never finish on time, and she stopped me. On moving day, they arrived and did in four hours what used to take me days. And when we reached Delhi, they unpacked everything again in just a couple more hours. I kept imagining how different my childhood moves would have been, my parents not living out of boxes for weeks while juggling work, just because hiring help wasn’t affordable. Movers and packers exist in Europe too, but they’re so expensive that “normal” people rarely consider them. Currency differences between India and France definitely play a role, but I also wonder if the lower demand for services in Western countries is part of why service prices are so high. A simple appreciation for the value for time and the privilege of having access to professionals.