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1 week ago | thejuggernaut.com | Olivia Bowden

When Shaivya Vashishtha became pregnant, she knew she had to make a drastic change. Raised as a strict vegetarian, she developed anemia at 25, even after secretly adding eggs to her diet. So she added fish to fill the nutritional gap, which she also hid from her family. It took getting pregnant years later for her to realize something was still wrong. “We started reading more about what nutritionally would be important for the baby’s growth,” the U.K.-based product manager told The Juggernaut.

2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

“Recession ho raha hai. That’s why they’re re-releasing everything!” actor Kalki Koechlin says in a painfully honest podcast interview. “There’s no content! Everything is stalled, everything is stuck.”Bollywood is over! I’m not saying it — everyone else is. Look around you: on Reddit, YouTube, social media, or wherever die-hard fans of Hindi cinema are found. The sentiment (and frustration) feels ubiquitous. The stars are registering like PR-generated brand placements.

2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Siobhan Neela-Stock

Ashveta Budhrani first learned about menstrual cycles in sixth grade. When the teacher asked if anyone knew what a period was, Budhrani confidently raised her hand, believing it to be a class period. When she asked her family about periods after school, they met her with silence. “My sister asked me to ‘shhh,’” Budhrani said. Later on, she learned this rule extended to menopause, too. Around 16, she started experiencing menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes.

3 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Poulomi Das

When Wes Anderson included a scene featuring a quirky memory game in Asteroid City (2023), it wasn’t just a creative flourish — it evoked Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri, the beloved 1970 Bengali classic. From the earthy color palettes of (2007) to the episodic narrative structure of (2021), Ray’s imprint runs deep in Anderson’s oeuvre. But his love for runs deeper. is a deceptively simple story about ego and epiphany.

3 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Olivia Bowden

Neeral Sheth and his partner never thought they would be welcoming their new baby into the world through a stranger they met on Zoom. For years, having children felt abstract, and even impossible. The Chicago-based couple married in 2016 after over a decade together. They had often discussed starting a family. But as two gay Indian American men, they weren’t sure how, or if, that dream would ever materialize. Then, they thought of surrogacy. The Sheths aren’t the only ones.