Hasmita

Just a ghee-loving girl that’s a minimalist at heart | Writer, Editor, Stylist + Content Consultant | Sharer of food + design finds.

[Hasmita @Hasmita_A]

@PrashnaV @AMG133 Oh, Prashna! 💔 I’m so sorry for your loss! Thinking of you and sending lots of strength & prayers 🕉️

[Yovanie Ganesh @Yovanie]

Happy Friday y’all
📸 blueiris on IG

[Hasmita @Hasmita_A]

Checking out of sourdough bread-making content. I’m happy for you, but I’m not interested.

[Moana @ladynationalist]

So a Hindu practicing his religion makes him a fraud?

[Siv Ngesi @iamSivN]

Very proud to have been part of this ground breaking campaign! Change is BLOODY🩸 near! #joepublic

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The biggest flex is a well read mind.

[Hasmita @Hasmita_A]

@charleneganesh Happy Friday! TGIF 🙌🏽🥳🥰

[Cape Town, Bru /\/¯¯¯¯¯\/ @CapeTown_Bru]

“The Rich, Irresistible Taste of South Africa” 🇿🇦

Khayelitsha Cookies Lands Deal With British Airways

A Cape Town-based cookie company is taking South African flavour to international skies after securing contracts worth more than R1.4 million to supply baked goods for British Airways flights and UK retailers.

The announcement was made on 18 May by the UK Government through the British Consulate-General Cape Town and British High Commission Pretoria and the deal was signed on 07 May 2026

https://t.co/X6dMgIXN3s

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@charleneganesh Ah, such a beautiful scene! 😍

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Oh man! This is all very cute to watch 😂

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Thank you for the gift

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@vaneshree02 Same! Apparently we don’t have refined taste 😵‍💫

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😂

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Instagram is going to need an ambulance today.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

His name is Professor Mashudu Tshifularo and this landmark surgery took place in March 2019 at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

[Sadaf Hussain @hussainsadaf1]

Shami kabab in Dilli & Lucknow are very different. Different again in Karachi, Dhaka or Bhopal. In fact, even in your family & mine.

From shallow to deep frying, ratio of daal and meat changes everywhere.

But they all taste delicious. Maybe not when you put too much daal 😁

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

Who is Maa durga ?? Why no one is above Hindu’s

Such wonderfully explained by the Gora ❤️❤️

[Hasmita @Hasmita_A]

I’m in the EdTech industry, specialising in English Language Teaching (ELT) publishing. We’re looking for experienced digital copy editors/writers that are based in South Africa, India or Mexico. Please reach out if you’re interested. Being digi-savvy is a must!

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Society so doomed, if a girl gets diagnosed with PCOS, the first concern is how will she conceive or become a mom rather than worrying about her who is now at high risk of endometriosis, ovarian cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.