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To Market, To Market: Food & Shopping Recommendations in Hanoi

  #Travel # Hanoi Vietnam Day 4 We planned to spend the day checking out some famous Hanoi old quarter streets known for their wares;  Hang Gai  (Hemp / Silk Street) and  Hang  Dau ( Bags and Shoes) in particular. Many of the streets are named after the wares they sell, there is a silver jewelry street, and one that sells only chocolates, one with wooden handmade products like combs, spoons, etc. I forgot the name of the street which sells  chocolates,  but it is on the same street where the famous  Bach  Ma templ e  is located. Our day was exclusively set for shopping and indulging our taste buds. We started with some street food right besides our homestay (Hanoi Old Quarter Homestay). We were recommended Bún Dậu Thập Cẩm and but maybe because the rice vermicelli noodle cake was served cold, the sausages and fried tofu were dripping oil, and the shrimp paste was quite pungent …we didn’t enjoy it very much. I suggest going for fresh gril...

Human Farming: The Dystopian Novel Plots are Turning Real One by One!

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  Human Farming: The Dystopian Novel Plots are Turning Real One by One! | by Anu maheshwari | Feb, 2025 | Medium “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Philip K. Dick “There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.” Margaret Atwood Horrified at the new article I came across about enslaved and trafficked Thai women being injected with hormones and their eggs being harvested by Chinese gangsters in Georgia.  A truly mafia-like cabal of global proportion! A globalised dystopian reality which cannot be unread/undone as it unfolds right before us. While reading  The Handmaid’s Tale  by Margaret Atwood, I was plagued by nightmarish scenarios of it all coming true. With declining birth rates in countries across the globe, the situation is already at panic level. I som...

Why Pakistan is Living in the Past? And Still Not Learning from the Past!

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 First Published on My Medium Blog  Why Pakistan is Living in the Past? | by Anu maheshwari | Feb, 2025 | Medium The govt of Pakistan is celebrating shooting down of Indian fighter jet in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), 2019. Why? It is as if their administration has run out of things to celebrate. No achievements, no success stories, no reason to celebrate for the entire country! Last time they came together to celebrate something was their 2024 Olympic triumph in javelin throw inching ahead of India at second place. Why does this country applaud guns, terrorism and religious extremism and not try to alleviate the condition of their citizens first . Are they so out of options that the only way to deflect the citizens from protesting their plight is to pick up a fight against their neighbour??? Image Source; SpiritualCleansing.Org They are living on foreign aid and still buy guns and ammo to fight against a country which has never been an aggressor ever! India has never lifte...

The Great Indian Kitchen/Mrs.: The Future of Family System

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  The Great Indian Kitchen/Mrs. : The Future of Family System | by Anu maheshwari | Feb, 2025 | Medium “ This is what I want ”, Joan Brandwyn boldly asserts to Prof Watson in the iconic movie  Mona Lisa Smile.   The right to choose your own path to happiness regardless of your gender, is what it is all about. I am not saying everybody in the world has or can have this privilege. There are financial obligations of course. Some amongst us who have found their vocation will call it financial freedom. There are people who would love to stay at home, take care of the household and indulge in their passion but are not able to for various reasons.  But the entire hullabaloo is not about who is doing what! Let us keep gender aside for a moment…forever if we can! The point is the attitude and lack of emotional support and understanding…the point is the lack of freedom to choose your path… the point is that we are missing the whole point! I have only watched the original ...

Boss Babies Who Never Grow Up! Pets: love with responsibility and commitment

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  Boss Babies Who Never Grow Up! Pets: Love with Responsibility and Commitment | Medium Are you familiar with a movie called  Boss Baby  about corporate manufactured babies who drink secret baby formula to gain intelligence yet remain as babies? I think my bossy beagle is one of them! He is blessed with cuteness unparalleled and wants tender love and care 24/7 and would fall over your feet hankering for a generous belly rub every time he sees you. Designed by the Author using Microsoft Designer These guys are cuteness overload and have a capacity for whining their way into everything they want and into every space they want to get into. They are tiny bundles of joy with  bottomless pit for a tummy. NO, I AM NOT EXAGERRATING! Sleeping Mishko as a puppy! Photo by Author You bring out anything remotely edible in the household, these super sniffer hounds will magically materialise before you and they will look into your soul begging for a taste.  Their innocent star...

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Is being in love more about yourself than the other person?

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  What’s Love Got to Do with It?. Is being in love more about yourself… | by Anu maheshwari | English Vinglish | Mar, 2025 | Medium H ave you ever been in love or are you in love? It is said to be the most wonderfully uplifting emotion. Photo of Dandelion shaped light installations at the Sunworld Theme Park, Halong, Vietnam. Photo by Author. Yesterday, I was listening to a friend of mind going on and on about the expectations she had from her boyfriend who she calls the ‘love’ of her life…I asked her why she had so many expectations from this person. Her answer was, “why should I continue to love him if he can’t make me happy?”. I was stumped, confused, and didn’t know what to say. She is my friend, and I will always be supportive but the feeling she has for her boyfriend…can it be called ‘Love’? Are we using this word correctly? Does the emotion of love have anything to do with the other person? Isn’t it something you feel inside you? Can you expect a person to change who they ar...