Vidya Ram

Journalist turned pastry chef. I romanticise food and roast life decisions. Cricket stress included.

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

@Meta @instagram HELP 🙏
Locked out of my business account @thatladywhobakes
Meta Verified. BM owner.
Recovery page stuck in a loop. No human support.
Small business losing orders daily. Please DM me.

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Funny how I hated French fries growing up. Now I happily invite those bitches to the table.
https://t.co/tapDIbmdLL

#substack #cafe #solodiner

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Sometimes I wonder what it’ll be like if we all start sounding the same. Imagine looking for a hook every single time you want someone’s attention. Imagine measuring every conversation by how long you can keep someone listening instead of whether you actually had something worth saying. Maybe that’s where we’re headed. Maybe we’re already there.
#socialmedia

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

I’m truly speechless. Dumbfounded. Gobsmacked.

This is one humiliation too many. There is literally nothing to be said.

#INDvENG @BCCI @imAagarkar @GautamGambhir

[Sunil Gavaskar @virender_swag]

I have never seen projected score at 950 in my life. Have you? Difficult for Commentators.

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Every time someone cooks for me a part of me goes looking for my Amamma.
This piece began with her chicken biryani and somehow wandered into spirituality, Shiva, Anthony Bourdain, grief and the search for meaning.

https://t.co/PJDuG68AVr

@TheVikasKhanna @virsanghvi @ChefTZac

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

https://t.co/VmjEpYJlrj
The saddest thing about patriarchy? Sometimes it convinces women they deserve it.
New piece on Bhanwari Devi, feminism, and the barriers we stop recognising as barriers.
@BDUTT @ravish_journo @unwomenindia @fayedsouza

[barkha dutt @BDUTT]

I was so horrified by the 'press confereence' of Giribala Singh, former Judge & mother in law of Twisha Shama- now an accused in a dowry death case, that i had to interview her and confront her with some direct questions
1. Where is her son? as an officer of the law- and her son is a lawyer - why is he absconding and will she urge him to surrender or is she hiding him?

2. Did she and her son taunt Twisha about carrying another man's baby?

3. How can she place in public domain the alleged assessment by Twisha's doctors of her mental health when that is strictly confidential between a doctor and patient?

4. Who is she to call Twisha's decision on abortion an act of cruelty - abortion is legal in India and its ultimately a woman's body and her choice within the framework of law

5. How can she conflate prescription medicines with drugs ? Where is her evidence on drug usage ? and how does she respond to the charge by Twisha's family that her husband was the drug addict

6. How can she as a woman and a judge indulge in the worst sort of character assassination of a young woman who is not even alive to defend herself against the smear

7. . Finally, detailed Whatsapp conversations show the living hell that Was Twisha's life. How does she respond to the allegations of dowry and harassment?

This was an often unpleasant, but necessary exchange. Do share your feedback. thank you

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Twisha told people she was suffering while she was alive.
Now everyone knows which screenshots to post after she’s dead.

That is the tragedy of our society. Women are asked to “adjust” until their silence becomes a headline.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Sorry, but ZERO sympathy for parents who ask their daughters to ‘adjust’ despite multiple red flags.

Twisha was assaulted by her husband on their honeymoon. Dowry-type demands. Anguished texts.

“Adjust”.

My interview with Twisha Sharma’s father:

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Sorry, but ZERO sympathy for parents who ask their daughters to ‘adjust’ despite multiple red flags.

Twisha was assaulted by her husband on their honeymoon. Dowry-type demands. Anguished texts.

“Adjust”.

My interview with Twisha Sharma’s father:

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Watched @nikhilkamathcio’s recent podcast and it made me realise how casually many of us talk about war.
Ask a soldier’s wife or someone living in a border state. They don’t have the privilege of looking at war as numbers or algorithms.They live its reality.
Wrote about it..

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Full piece here

https://t.co/tMmrknn7Vd

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

Watched @nikhilkamathcio’s recent podcast and it made me realise how casually many of us talk about war.
Ask a soldier’s wife or someone living in a border state. They don’t have the privilege of looking at war as numbers or algorithms.They live its reality.
Wrote about it..

[Vidya Ram @vidyaaram]

https://t.co/R4S38Xx7Jl

I was there during OP Sindoor. I wrote something for my fellow fauji wives. This life demands more than sarees and sarkari ghars. It demands courage
@OfficialAwwa @BDUTT
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