Ritu — seasons of a woman’s body
The things nobody explains
Long pieces about what is actually going on in the body — written for the woman living inside it rather than for a doctor reading about it. Mechanism, not reassurance. Names for things you have been carrying without one.
The Tiredness That Doesn’t Wash Off
Meera wakes at 4:12, scratching a patch of shin she has scratched for two years. Her blood tests are perfect. Her doctor suggests less stress and some yoga. This is what is actually happening — including the two symptoms she is most ashamed of, which turn out to be the same symptom wearing different clothes, and to have the least personal explanations available.
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Below the waist, and why nobody mentions it — on genitourinary syndrome of menopause, which affects a large share of women, is treatable, and goes unreported for years. · Why your knees, and not your temperature — on joint and muscle pain, the most commonly reported symptom in Indian studies and the one least often connected to hormones. · The thirty‑gram problem — on protein, and how far short of it most Indian vegetarian diets fall for a woman in her forties.
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Aap akeli nahi hain
Knowing the name is the first half.
The second half is doing something about it, alongside women who are doing the same.