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your hair and nails always look fantastic and you’re ready KEEP SHARING YOUR HOME REMEDIES
to attend any event at a moment’s notice. Bonus points We wonder why so many Indian children are pressured
if you are still single because always being glammed up to go to school and become doctors when it seems
will increase your chances of finding a mate. everyone in our community is a medical expert anyway,
just without the degree. Regardless, the hidden home
KEEP FEEDING EVERYONE remedies that our “doctors” share can sometimes prove
When you visit a fellow Indian’s home, simply being to be useful. Whether it’s forwarding purifying religious
offered just a glass of water may raise questions of chants on YouTube or insisting you add turmeric to cure
whether the family’s cook is on holiday or if they are all your ailments, there is no shortage of advice that will
having financial problems and can’t feed you. Luckily, help you live your best life.
An unreformed party girl and mother that’s never the case as Indian hosts are always ready
of two, author, editor and observer to serve some tasty treats to anyone who comes over. KEEP BARGAINING AND TELLING US ABOUT THE
Sumati Huber tries to Tea is freshly brewed and served piping hot — lukewarm BEST DEALS
make sense of our unique and it will be sent back to be reheated — and the host is Thank you to Indians for helping to set the bar low when it
Thai-Indian society and the aunties more than happy to share their secret contacts of food comes to pricing so that we can always boast about how
that she will one day become. delivery. So please keep inviting us to your house and little we paid. Shopkeepers know that when we approach,
setting out a spread because we will happily eat it even we are ready to negotiate and won’t back down because
if we say we’re not hungry. we already heard that Auntie Dimple paid 20 baht for
ANTI-RESOLUTIONS FOR INDIANS three kilos of tomatoes. Our wallets stay happy and we
KEEP TAKING YOUR EVENING WALKS have more to spend on going to the salon, feeding our
t’s a new year and conventional traditions say you Whether you’re just pacing around your living room or guests, buying new walking shoes, and perhaps even
should be setting some goals to have a better life stepping out in the soi with your spouse in cute walking paying for medical school in case our children decide to
for the next 365 days. But if you think about it, sneakers paired with a salwar kameez, this healthy become “real” doctors. Everybody wins!
there’s nothing we Indians need to improve on since habit of adding more steps to your day goes a long
we are already perfect, and it’s actually Auntie Sheetal’s way. Walking in the evening or after dinner also ensures
daughter who should be reforming because did you see your skin stays fair as you don’t have to deal with the
how she was dressed at the holiday party? sweltering sun. You can always come back to your couch
after and gossip about all the naughty kids you noticed
However, if you want to vow to exercise more or drink heading out for their nighttime parties.
less, that’s great because we know you will be super
successful… until January 3rd, that is. But for the rest
of us, here are some things we should keep resolving
to do in 2025:

KEEP GOING TO THE SALON
This one is easy with little risk unless your usual stylist
isn’t there and your curls don’t fall the way you prefer.
Either way, with your weekly (or daily) grooming schedule,

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