Indian women are in a silent health pandemic that nobody is calling a pandemic.
Your mother. Your wife. Your sister. One of them is in it right now and you haven’t noticed.
No virus. No daily death count. So nobody is panicking. But every Indian woman in her 30s is carrying something that’s been waved off as “normal.”
She’s been told it’s hormonal. That’s not a diagnosis.
•Hair falling since 25
•Periods never on time
•Tired the moment she wakes up
•Weight that won’t move
•Mood swings she’s told to just manage
This isn’t five problems in five women. It’s one generation carrying five versions of the same collapse.
1. The hair fall isn’t normal. It’s a signal.
Hair falling at 25 is low ferritin, low Vitamin D, or a thyroid quietly struggling. She blamed the water and the shampoo. Nobody ran the blood test that would have explained it.
2. The irregular periods aren’t just PCOS to “manage.”
1 in 5 Indian women has PCOS and 70% are never properly diagnosed. She got a pill at 19 and an “it’ll regulate.” The pill hid the symptom while the cause kept growing.
3. The exhaustion isn’t her being “low energy.”
Iron deficiency. Thyroid dysfunction. B12 depletion. She’s been told she’s just not a morning person. She’s running on empty and nobody measured it.
4. The weight that won’t move isn’t a willpower problem.
Insulin resistance, a slowed thyroid, a hormonal system under stress. She ate less and moved more for years. The problem was never the effort.
The 25-year-old with hair fall and the 40-year-old with a thyroid condition have more in common than they think.
They’re the same woman at different stages of the same pandemic.
Nobody is calling it a pandemic because every woman is told the same thing. It’s normal. It’s hormonal. It’s just stress.
I’m moving tomorrow and the older lady who lives next to me stopped me in the hallway tonight. She said, “I’m really going to miss you.” I smiled and told her I’d miss her too, and then she said something that completely broke me.
She told me every time I went out at night with my friends, she would stay up. She wouldn’t turn off her TV, wouldn’t go to bed, wouldn’t fully relax until she heard my door close and knew I made it home safe.
This whole time I thought I was just living next to a quiet neighbor. Turns out I had a guardian angel through the wall.
I’m leaving tomorrow and now I can’t stop thinking about all those nights I stumbled in late, tired and laughing, not knowing someone next door was listening for that small click of my door just to feel at peace.
Some people love you softly. So softly you don’t even realize you’re being cared for. 🖤😭
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Over the years, many candidates have said that sitting here felt more nerve-wracking than the interview itself. Those quiet minutes, alone with your thoughts.
Perhaps this is the loneliest chair in the entire UPSC journey 😅
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But I always thought it was the other way around.🤔
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Years later, Amanjot Kaur became a World Cup winner with Team India, one of the most consistent performers of the tournament.
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A friend of mine, said to me, when you pray for something and God answers. Don’t stop praying. Go back to God and say, now that I have this, guide me to rightfully use this answered prayer.
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