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Most of us in white-collar jobs lead highly sedentary lifestyles with little exercise. Here's a simple guide to getting fit for the busy Indian woman.
Most of us in white-collar jobs lead highly sedentary lifestyles with little exercise. Here’s a simple guide to getting fit for the busy Indian woman.
Sedentary lifestyles are common today – we sit for long hours, take the car everywhere and never climb the stairs if we can help it! Working women in India moreover, are often over-burdened with dual responsibilities, and women’s health ends up being the casualty.
Even if one doesn’t have 45 minutes to head to the gym or swimming pool, there are simple exercises that can be easily woven into a regular working day, perhaps in 2 short bursts of 10-15 mins each. Rather than waiting for that momentous day when we sign on for the gym membership, it’s better to look at what we can do NOW to care for our bodies.
In this video, a trainer demonstrates 4 such simple movements that women can easily incorporate into their regular schedules.
Stay healthy!
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Just because they are married a husband isn’t entitled to be violent to his wife. Just because a man is "in love" with a woman, it doesn't give him a right to be violent.
Trigger Warning: This speaks of graphic details of violence against women and may be triggering for survivors.
Anger is a basic human emotion, just like happiness or being sad. One chooses his/her way of expressing that emotion. It is safe until that action stays within oneself.
What happens when that feeling is forced upon another? The former becomes the perpetrator, and the latter turns out to be the victim.
Rrashima Swaarup Verma's new bestselling book The Royal Scandal is a celebration of the spirit of womanhood set in the 18th Century.
Rrashima Swaarup Verma’s new bestselling book The Royal Scandal is a celebration of the spirit of womanhood.
A true love story. A tale of politics, treachery and war. A piece from India’s rich history. A vivid description of 18th century life in the Deccan. Yes, The Royal Scandal is all that and more. But it is also an aide-mémoire of the tremendous fortitude, the unbeatable spirit that women are, and have always been, capable of.
18th century, Hyderabad, India. A time and place when societal laws and rules came down heavy on the female gender, when zenanas separated and shielded the women from the world outside, when it was understood and accepted that the men in their lives would govern and dictate every big and small decision.
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